On Fareed Zakaria’s weekly GPS news magazine show on CNN this past weekend, the entire hour is dedicated to Russia, including interviews with William Browder, Mikheil Saakashvili, Bret Stephens, and Stephen Cohen.
A Bangladeshi Foreign Ministry spokesperson has anounced that Russia’s nuclear company Rosatom has agreed to collaborate in the building of nuclear power plants in the energy-poor country. According to Reuters, Vladimir Putin is appare...
The Moscow Times has quoted Mirax Group owner Sergei Polonsky as saying that as many as 85% of Russian businessmen ‘have their bags packed’ and are ready to leave the country because they do not trust the government. Putin is, it...
TODAY: Chess federation loses home; Siberian authorities ban miners’ protest; promise to close suspect mines; new anti-corruption measures; Duma lawmakers complain about judiciary’s failure to comply with new economic crime law. ...
The following video contains graphic footage from inside Wat Pathuwanaram, Bangkok, on May 19th, when it is believed that Thai Royal Army fired upon unarmed protesters seeking refuge inside the supposed safe haven of the temple. In this video, And...
In response to our requests seeking to collect evidence and testimony of the Thai army’s conduct in its violent crackdown against mostly unarmed and peaceful protesters, we’ve had a significant number of volunteers sending in letters, ...
Our country, led by the friendly Putin-Medvedev tandem, continues to move in seven-mile steps towards the shining heights (a variant on the shameful failures) of the socialist past. They’re writing that in one of the polyclinics (I suspect t...
The Russian premier sure loves his idiomatic phrases. He has certainly made up a number of his very own, and when he can’t, he always manages to remember something suitable to the occasion. And so it was that he remembered a phrase from the ...
We’ve covered the case of the persecuted Russian journalist Mikhail Beketov in many articles on this blog, and it’s good to see his name featured in a New York Times editorial today. Mr. Levy described how Mikhail Beketov dared to writ...
I found this article by Philip Stephens in the Financial Times very thought provoking – and they are certainly right about the universal derision expressed for Turkey and Brazil taking on their role in the Iran nuclear dispute. How suc...
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