Charges of illegal entrepreneurship and money laundering against billionaire Mikhail Gutseriyev, ‘widely seen as punishment orchestrated by the siloviki‘, have been dropped due to lack of evidence. Kaluga officials are welcoming ...
TODAY: Russia detains former Kyrgyz police official; US and Russia call for WW2 style mutual trust; Belarus angry over free Russian naval bases; Ukrainians protest new gas-for-base deal; Russian wins London Marathon; United Russia seeks ban for Zh...
Is it just me, or does the image to the right strike fear into your heart as well? Talk about strategic lighting. But there are other, non-architectural reasons to fear Gazprom, according to a new Forbes 2000 – a list of the world̵...
Time Magazine ponders today the growing influence of Russia in former Soviet states that had made concrete steps towards breaking away in recent years, such as Georgia, which is thought to have less support from Obama now than it had from the...
Vladimir Putin commented on the gas deal that would reduce Ukraine’s prices in exchange for an extension of Russia’s lease on its Sevastopol naval base: ‘It’s anything but a simple decision for us. Anything but simple, beca...
The State Duma may approve today a bill on the financing of hospitals and schools that would implement a free market approach, which ‘could lead to a drop in state subsidies, forcing hospitals, schools and even libraries to increase their nu...
TODAY: Human rights groups call for murder inquiry into Magnitsky’s death; Memorial attempting to declassify Katyn documents; Russia denies Georgia’s uranium smuggling accusations; lawmakers urge Russia not to halt US adoptions; nuclea...
A little while back we saw this new rhetoric coming on, and as expected, Russia is beginning to pile it on with the Narco NATO talk. Lacking any other dispute, this will likely be Russia’s obligatory confrontation with the West, like the Geo...
Konstantin Sonin makes an interesting point in today’s Moscow Times about the nature of modernization as a strategic tool for gaining power in government. Sonin implies that Dmitry Medvedev and Vladimir Putin’s peaceful tandem ru...
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