Here is the second video from our exclusive interview series with Dr. Nina Khrushcheva, in which she shares some of her views on the second trial of Mikhail Khodorkovsky. Stay tuned for more later this week.
Reports are in that Viktor Yanukovych has won 48.95% of the presidential vote, to Yulia Tymoshenko’s 45.48%. Here’s some of what’s being said in the Western media about the result. The Guardian says: ‘[U]nfortunately ...
Not much of a surprise, given last week’s allegations that the spat was nothing but a puppet show, that United Russia and A Just Russia have buried the hatchet. But what you may find surprising is this little soundbite from Finance Min...
Viktor Yanukovych will need to attend to Ukraine’s gas situation, says the Moscow Times, and ‘tweak a long-term gas deal signed by Tymoshenko and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin in 2009 that made gas for Ukraine one of the most expensive...
Two former senior officials at the Federal Property Agency have been arrested on suspicion of extortion. France’s Budget Ministry says that the highest and most interesting bid for a plot of land next to the Eiffel Tower came from the ...
TODAY: What next for Kaliningrad? Lawyers accuse telecoms companies of treating dissent as extremism; US defense secretary criticizes sale of French warship to Russia; Medvedev refreshes regional leadership; Berezovsky case being heard in London; ...
Thanks to the creative mind of the writer Rudyard Kipling ,once upon a time there lived the python Kaa. Somewhere in the jungles this was. Kaa was large and frightful. He could hypnotize the Bandar-log monkeys with just his hissing. The Bandar-log...
The UK press have a reputation for baiting Russia somewhat – perhaps a reflection of less-than-healthy diplomatic relations in recent years. Today, the Telegraph has published a bizarre article by one James Corum, a specialist in milit...
[Though the following post has nothing to do with Russia, I had been receiving some questions so I am making this information available to those interested. –Thanks, RA] As announced in a press release dated 9 December 2009, my law firm, Ams...
Here Streetwise Professor recounts his fortunate opportunity to meet up with the Russian youth activist Oleg Kozlovsky during his speaking tour of the United States (Kozlovsky had been stranded in St. Louis by the snowstorms on the East Coast).&nb...
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