The theme of economic modernization will apparently be high on the agenda at the 10th meeting of the St Petersburg Dialogue between President Dmitry Medvedev and German Chancellor Angela Merkel. The major trading partners will apparently sig...
TODAY: No closure on Estemirova case one year on; Medvedev disappointed on results of corruption crackdown; encourages harsher penalties for graft offenses; ex-cons deemed unfit for service in police force. Magazine found guilty of defamatio...
One of my favorite Spike Lee movies takes place during a brutal heatwave in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, where the high temperatures and simmering racial pressures explode into anger and a deeply unsettling interrogation of Ame...
Alvaro Vargas Llosa has an op/ed in the Globe and Mail on the relationship between the incompetence of the arrested/swapped spies and the lost reform process in Russia. Whereas China’s Deng Xiaoping had a clear vision of a midterm path to a ...
Writing in the New York Times, Tom Friedman reminds us that there is no news story, no matter how strange and arcane, that can’t be bent into shape to be used as a Friedmanian libertarian vehicle. Look, if you had told me that we had j...
As part of the Russian and Iranian energy ministries’ road map for long-term cooperation a joint bank will be established to help fund bilateral projects. Royal Dutch Shell has announced that its LNG venture with Gazprom on Russia̵...
Russia’s public-health chief, Gennady Onishchenko, has suggested that companies introduce a siesta regime for workers who are exhausted by the record heat wave. The government is attempting to discourage cattle breeders from slaughteri...
TODAY: Interior Ministry official rejects Hermitage accusations over Magnitsky case; more than 30% of prison population is ill, says new survey; Russian laws accused of being responsible for worsening HIV epidemic; curators appeal. Regional ...
Arrested and deported redhead spy extraordinaire Anna Chapman is reportedly taking bids from reporters to have the first opportunity to interview her, according to Julia Ioffe’s Twitter stream. She’s also resumed posting to her incredi...
George Friedman of STRATFOR has published a new analysis which argues that the role of the undercover Russian spy ring was most likely to recruit talent and deep embedded sources, not collect the intelligence themselves. This speculation com...
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