It is the closest we have seen Vladimir Putin come to talking about the crimes against humanity committed by Joseph Stalin’s regime during his historic summit at Katyn with Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, but he still didn’t go all ...
RFE/RL’s Bruce Pannier is interviewed by Al-Jazeera about the revolution slash coup in Kyrgyzstan which toppled authoritarian leader Kurmanbek Bakiyev.
LUKoil, an occasional supplier to Iran with ‘significant exposure‘ in the US, will reportedly cease delivering gasoline to the country ahead of possible international sanctions. The FT says the move has not yet been finalized. &n...
President Dmitry Medvedev’s first visit to Slovakia saw him saluting the countries’ strong economic partnership and overseeing the signing of several energy and transportation deals, including a plan to create a research center in Brat...
TODAY: Putin attends Katyn ceremony, fails to apologize, prepares new gas agreements; terrorist attacks dock his popularity. Kyrgyz uprising nothing to do with Russia; Medvedev in Slovakia, due to sign treaty with Obama in Prague later today; Russ...
I had no idea that he was the type of guy to return calls from reporters, but here Anna Nemtsova at Newsweek has an interesting Q&A with one of the Kremlin’s top three most powerful siloviki, Viktor Ivanov. The NATO-bashing was exp...
Brian Whitmore has a pretty interesting post over at Power Vertical discussing a recent argument from Gleb Pavlovsky that Vladimir Putin may eventually find the most comfortable position to pull the strings would be as chairman of the United Russi...
The hearts-and-minds approach really hasn’t caught on yet with the Kremlin’s handling of the North Caucasus. The New York Times takes a look: That does not mean that citizens in the Caucasus generally embrace radical Islam, nor t...
Uganda says it won’t swap oil for six Russian Su-30 fighter jets because no Russian companies are currently prospecting for crude there. Zelenogorsk could be rejuvenated by French multinational Areva, which has recently opened a commer...
President Dmitry Medvedev’s new anti-corruption strategy includes a ‘multiplier fine‘ for bribe-takers, based on the size of the bribe, which he says would be easier to enforce by law than property confiscations. The Presid...
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