Among the regime’s many defenders, the leadership of the Kremlin can count upon a supportive chorus in the West to parlay any criticism of Russia’s democratic bankruptcy – happily pointing to high GDP growth over the past decade,...
Writing in the Washington Post, Masha Lipman sees some problems with the Kremlin’s approach to dealing with the North Caucasus conflict and the rise of radical Islam. Today, the rise of radical Islam in the North Caucasus is inevitable, espe...
One result of Vladimir Putin’s visit to Venezuela was an ageement that Russian oil companies will be permitted to help explore the $30 billion Junin-6 oil field project in exchange for giving Venezuela a $1 billion ‘entry ticket‘...
A new Kremlin ruling will limit companies to issuing no more than 25% of their equity abroad could ‘push companies to re-register offshore in an attempt to escape both Moscow and the restrictions‘. Los Angeles-based International...
TODAY: 3.5 million attend Easter services; two more bombs detonated over the weekend are linked to North Caucasus, investigators say; second Moscow metro bomber named; Yevgeny Chichvarkin believes mother’s death was murder; banner referencin...
Today Kommersant published photos of the suspected suicide bomber Dzhennet Abdurakhmanova, a 17-year-old girl from the Khasavyurtsky region of Dagestan who was married to the fallen militant Umalat Magomedov. Leave it to the British tabloids...
Sam Greene of the Carnegie Endowment’s Moscow Center has a very interesting article taking a look at the political implications of the Metro bombings. Given that Vladimir Putin kept his playdate with Hugo Chavez in Caracas instead of r...
The things I like best about Andrei Piontkovsky are his exceptional restraint, carefully measured understatement, and avoidance of inflammatory language … OK, Piontkovsky is pretty much the opposite of all that, but that doesn’t mean h...
The Times reports on whether Obama has made good on his nuclear promise one year on from the pivotal Prague speech. Good news for his upcoming nuclear summit; Chinese President Hu Jintao plans to attend. A lack of consensus still looms...
There has been a major raid by Interior Ministry investigators at Mirax Group’s offices as part of a probe into the alleged theft of $140,000 in electricity. The Washington Post has an interesting article on a lawyer-turned-corporate-a...
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