As if smoke inhalation and related respiratory diseases weren’t enough, Moscow doctors are saying they expect an increased suicide rate as a result of the wildfires. City officials, who were criticised for not doing enough when the smoke lev...
Romania is not happy about Russia’s treatment of a Romanian diplomat who has been accused of spying by the FSB. Gabriel Grecu was arrested yesterday and told to leave Russia. Today Romania has decided to retaliate by declaring a Russian dipl...
An article in the Washington Post today focuses one aspect of the expired START treaty that has been often overlooked in the media: For the first time in 15 years, the US is not able to carry out inspections of Russia’s nuclear missiles, fol...
Sovcomflot and Novatek are exploring ways of cutting delivery times for shipments of oil and gas to China, sending cargo through the Arctic instead of the Suez Canal with the help of nuclear icebreakers. According to the Afghan Mines Mi...
The Finance Ministry wants to cancel state subsidies of major infrastructure, such as rail tracks and power lines, to shore in $85 million for the budget and help narrow deficits from 2012 onwards. President Dmitry Medvedev called on Russia&...
TODAY: Pavlovsk Twitter campaign leads Medvedev to call for inquiry; Kaliningrad governor to be ousted; regular protest site to be shut down for construction; fires give way to gales as thousands lose power; power vertical starts with Kursk? Shave...
Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov wants to do away with the title of president in Chechnya, saying that “in a single state there should be only one president, and in [federal] subjects the top figures can call themselves the head of the repub...
Here’s a the latest music video from Noize MC, aka Ivan Alexeyev, the Russian rapper who was arrested earlier this month and jailed for 10 days for insulting the police during one of his performances. Once again, Alexeyev targets Russia̵...
This looks like a pretty interesting read. From Foreign Policy (hat tip reader AM): A new memoir by Swedish businessman Lennart Dahlgren explores just that quandary. Dahlgren spent nearly a decade battling bureaucrats to bring furniture gian...
As wildfires around Moscow dwindle down, many continue asking why the wildfire catastrophe in Russia was allowed to escalate to such a high level. In a Moscow Times opinion piece, Yevgenia Albats argues that part of the problem is that local gover...
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