The Lede blog over at the New York Times reports on the poisoning of German tennis star Tommy Haas, which naturally gets blamed on the Russians with little to no evidence. Seems like a typical media knee-jerk reaction with no grounds.
Russian President Vladimir Putin delivers a speech during the presentation of the City of Military Glory certificates in Moscow’s Kremlin. Russia’s parliament voted Wednesday to suspend compliance with a key Cold War treaty limiting co...
Following President Vladimir Putin’s live broadcast Q&A session in mid-October, Robert Amsterdam published an entry on this blog which today led to an interesting cover story exposing a rather major factual mistake during the state broa...
Below are three parts of a documentary titled “The Rise and Fall of the Russian Oligarchs” produced by the program Human Edge for Canadian television. The documentary vastly simplifies the Khodorkovsky case, and commits many of the com...
Today the Duma voted 418-0 in favor of a new law scrapping Russia’s obligations to conform with the Conventional Forces in Europe Treaty (CFE), an agreement which traces its roots all the way back to Nixon and Brezhnev. (Photo: AFP) Nobody s...
File this one under foregone conclusions: “$100 oil would have a big political impact” by Gideon Rachman in the Financial Times. Mr. Rachman argues that the implications include more spending by Hugo Chavez abroad and more money for He...
Here’s an interesting little tidbit: apparently BP’s CEO Tony Hayward held one intense meeting with Russian energy executives over the fate of the TNK-BP joint venture during yesterday’s Champions League match between Gazprom-spo...
How much damage to Berlin and Moscow’s privileged relationship has been caused by Russia’s bullying of German airline Lufthansa? Last week we initially reported on the air cargo scandal, publishing a translation from the German press a...
Russian soldiers dressed in historical uniforms march in Red Square during a military parade in Moscow, November 7, 2007. Moscow marked the anniversary of a historical parade in 1941 when Soviet soldiers marched through Red Square to the front lin...
Surely by now you have noticed the very large advertisement in the upper-left-hand corner of this blog, modestly and graciously asking you for your vote for my blog for the 2007 Weblog Awards for the Best European Blog (Non UK). Nevertheless, I th...
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