Being that wonderful week between New Year’s and Orthodox Christmas, there is basically no news coming out of Russia as everybody is on holiday. As such, we’re basically going to be posting whatever we feel like, for example, thi...
We’ve given the recent Bollywood summit between Dmitry Medvedev and Mahoman Singh a bit of coverage, but here MK Bhadrakumar gets more in depth. Despite his baroque, flowery writing style, the author provides a glimpse into the future ...
Iran’s rather selective invitation to its nuclear facilities have roused skepticism on the part of Britain and the US, with the latter calling the offer that of a ‘magical mystery tour’ and a ‘public relations stunt‘....
Today Bloomberg offers us a video interview with astute social networking investor, Digital Sky chief Yuri Milner. According to Reuters, Finnish forestry group UPM-Kymmene has denied a newspaper report that it intends to construct a $2 billi...
TODAY: How the Kremlin employs cyber control; Nashi involved in protest thwarting; further detentions of protesters in Moscow; Belarus releases some detainees; US and Russia enjoy anti-hijacking exercise; Shmatko recommends forest-razing to deal w...
When Belarussian dictator Alexander Lukashenko stole an election last Dec. 19, followed by a violent crackdown against protesting citizens and the arrests of some 600 political prisoners, among them, five presidential candidates, you could hardly ...
Iran has confirmed that it has invited International Atomic Energy Agency ambassadors to tour nuclear facilities in the Islamic Republic. Tehran reportedly dispatched invites to Russia, China and a handful of EU member states, leaving the US...
President Medvedev has reportedly signed a decree to reduce the number of civil servants by 20% within three years. This article explores Digital Sky Technology’s numerous business interests in the US, besides Facebook. The New Y...
TODAY: Ekho Moskvy correspondent detained for report on Strategy 31 detainees; Dec 31 crackdown draws US criticism; Belarus frees one presidential candidate; Lithuania hopes to intervene on Minsk’s OSCE decision. Medvedev to put off Is...
In some old Soviet film-fairytale, I think it may have been Ali-Baba, there was a memorable character who played the role of a midnight town crier. Something like a watchman, but one who brought the reassuring news. He walked at night through the ...
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