Say what you will about Europe’s last dictator Alexander Lukashenko, the guy is a smart political operator. From Pavol Demeš on RealClearWorld: Lukashenko is at his chess game again – and winning. Top Western officials are writing him ...
The cover story on this week’s International Edition of Newsweek features Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, with the unflattering headline “Moscow’s Phony Liberal.” I had already Owen Matthews and Anna Nemtsova’...
From the Financial Times on the Yukos trial at the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in Strasbourg: “It is now entirely in the hands of the court. There will be no further pleadings,” said Piers Gardner, lawyer for the plaintiffs, ...
Today is the 57th anniversary of the death of Josef Stalin, and the Communists and other nationalists are lining up to lay flowers at his grave on the Kremlin wall and bandy about other paraphernalia to sing his praises. Naturally, many of t...
So everybody is talking about this $1 million challenge posted by Russian Ambassador Dmitry Rogozin on his Twitter for someone to “prove that NATO is not pursuing military planning against Russia.” Don’t bother trying to wi...
Gazprom is conducting an internal audit of export schemes in an attempt to eliminate unnecessary intermediaries. Just in time for Viktor Yanukovych’s visit to Russia, the Kremlin says it wants Ukraine to stick with its existing gas dea...
According to President Dmitry Medvedev, unemployment is Russia’s ‘main social challenge‘. Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin are at odds over a government plan to increase pensions by 6.3% next...
TODAY: Kaliningrad protesters to form coalition; Yukos case will keep its representative, Kremlin claims improper filing; US returns Russian silver pendant; Olympic Committee head confirms resignation; LUKoil crash continues to create problems; No...
Only in Ingushetia would the cop who “accidentally” shot and killed a journalist who was being held under arrest share his victim’s last name without relation, and only in the Russian justice system would such a person be let out...
The following is a letter sent from T.J. Gorton to the London Review of Books in response to the Keith Gessen book review of Richard Sakwa’s work on the downfall of Yukos and imprisonment of Mikhail Khodorkovksy. Very compelling readin...
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