Video: The Georgia TV News Hoax
A real news report on the fake news report. It’s hard to see the logic behind this very bad idea. Watch the intro which preceded the report here, as well as some good commentary.
Month: March 2010
Grigory Pasko: Extremists Everywhere You Look
If the Russian police are doing something very ham-fistedly and very doggedly, that means another agency is looming behind their back. And we can guess just which one. No doubt many of us from the very beginning assumed that the story with the sei...
The Benefits of Troublemaking
Owen Matthews at Newsweek has been writing some hard-hitting stuff on Russia lately – namely the take down of Medvedevian faux modernization in that recent cover story. In this latest piece, Matthews conjures the irresistible James Bon...
Khodorkovsky and the Legal Battlefield
Kim Zigfield (also known as La Russophobe) has a new blog post about Mikhail Khodorkovsky’s Nezavisimaya Gazeta article and the Yukos ECHR case as being two fronts of a legal battle against Putinism, published on PajamasMedia: Make no mistak...
A Strong Continuity between Soviet and Russian States
Joshua Foust, who usually blogs at Registan.net, has a book review (posted a few days back) of former GRU General Boris Volodarsky’s history of Russia’s use of poisons for assassinations published at Oil and the Glory. And what a poiso...
Energy Blast – March 15, 2010
India and Russia have signed a nuclear cooperation agreement, which will see Russia assist in the building of around 20 ‘ultrasafe’ reactors at three locations in India. European states could take unilateral measures on Iran sanc...
Today in Russian Business – March 15, 2010
Russia’s central bank is planning to introduce stricter requirements for banks this year as it reduces the weight of emergency liquidity measures put into place at the apex of the crisis. There is a Q+A in Reuters on whether Russia nee...
RA’s Daily Russian News Blast – March 15, 2010
TODAY: High turn-out in regional elections clouded in allegations of fraud; United Russia victory looks likely; spoof TV show showing Russian invasion sends panic across Georgia. START replacement deal imminent (apparently). Mass protest against t...
Elections Continue to Disappoint Opposition
Today’s analysis of the buildup to the weekend’s regional elections may feel like old news to many: the talk of disappointment at the apparent continual and purposeful marginalization of opposition parties, despite Medvedev’s pro...
Anti-Putin Petition
Getting the cold shoulder from the art world isn’t much of a surprise when you oversee the banning of exhibitions, allow for the arrest of an artist for taking your image in vain and, lest we forget, flirt occasionally with watercolors, but ...
