This Yaroslavl Forum thing is really turning into a clown conference, with comments like this: “I categorically do not agree with those who claim that there is no democracy in Russia, that it is ruled by authoritarian tradition,” Medve...
From my latest on Huffington Post: It has been particularly heartening to see Germany’s decision to halt the sale of of military equipment – in the specific instance, engines that power Ukrainian-made armored personnel carriers –...
Just a bit of reasonable stridency from the Guardian’s editorial page: In an off-the-record briefing to a visiting group of foreign academics and journalists this week, a senior official of the Russian government spoke in tones verging on co...
An article in the Kyiv Post criticizes the news that Russian-state-owned TVEL (an arm of Rosatom) has won a ‘competitive evaluation‘ against Westinghouse to build Ukraine’s first nuclear fuel source, suggesting that the move will...
Attendees are applauding the openness of Yaroslavl’s two-day forum on ‘The Modern State‘, which has already heard outspoken criticisms from opposition leaders, including a call from Yabloko for Dmitry Medvedev to fight the rule o...
TODAY: Vladikavkaz death toll reaches 17, three suspects arrested; wildfires continue to spread in Altai and Novosibirsk, latter region gets new leader; alternative Khimki route ‘too expensive’; smoking and AIDS; modernization is about...
France24 speaks with journalist Andrew Osborn on the latest terror bombing in North Ossetia which claimed the lives of 15 Russian civilians, coming on the same day as the important Muslim holiday of Eid, concluding Ramadan.
Back in 2008, Stanford professor Michael McFaul wrote an article in Foreign Affairs along with Kathryn Stoner-Weiss which upset the Putin-supporting camp. Then, following the election of Barack Obama, McFaul was appointed as the key Russia a...
It’s an argument so simple and obvious that I actually haven’t seen all that many people bothering to make it. Nevertheless, the Financial Times is running an editorial gently suggesting that it might not be such a good idea for ...
BP has released the report of its internal probe into the Deepwater explosion and oil disaster, acknowledging its own culpability but also blaming its partners, provoking an immediate backlash. ‘Of their own eight key findings, they only exp...
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