TODAY: Russia and US negotiating Kyrgyz interests, Russia pledges funds; New Times editor won’t hand over police probe material; Chuvashov gun used in Markelov killing? ‘Maximum harshness’ in new terror measures. Medvedev i...
Blogging about Russia used to be fun … the hilarity of those early topless photo shoots of Vladimir Putin, Judo demonstrations, and other key moments in the building of his cult of personality – there was so much to talk about. Now the...
During my last visit to the Khodorkovsky trial courtroom, I had the opportunity to stop the procurators Kovalikhina and Shokhin outside on the staircase with a question: “Do the procurators give interviews?” Shokhin stopped short in su...
President Dmitry Medvedev insists that reports on shale gas deposits in the US are a stimulus for modernizing the Russian economy, not a threat. No sign of that modernization on the horizon, however, as the Natural Resources Minister se...
Renaissance Capital suggests that the government’s current fiscal policy will not protect it from another, ‘inevitable‘ global downturn. The FT reports on the view that all elements of the economy not directly tied to raw m...
TODAY: Medvedev commits to close plutonium reactor at Washington nuclear summit and pledges to push for Iran sanctions as nuclear powers; Kyrgyz officials in Moscow; poll suggests Russians value order over democracy; judges seek police protection;...
Perhaps NATO can spend its way into influence within the new government in Bishkek, but more and more, it seems like the leverage will play out between the Chinese and Russians, and it’s not clear if they agree on the issue of Manas. F...
Richard Perle, of legendary reputation during the Bush administration, takes to the pages of the Wall Street Journal to slam Barack Obama’s nuclear deal with Russia. I think Perle misses the point on the purpose of a nuclear treaty wit...
The assassination this week of Russian Judge Eduard Chuvashov by suspected ultra-nationalists was a violently outrageous reminder of the vulnerability of judicial independence in the country, but it was not necessarily surprising. Reports indicate...
The BBC reports that most of the estimated 1,600 tonnes of highly enriched uranium in the world is held in Russia. Iran says its is counting on Russia to take a ‘neutral position‘ on new Western sanctions over its nuclear energy ...
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