Earlier tonight the Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao concluded his official state visit to Russia, capping off a number of business deals, advances in trade talks, and various big promises over economic and energy integration. The most important agreeme...
Canada’s Only Magazine reports on an amusing imagined encounter between one of Russia’s greatest writers and two marketing managers of mass consumerism. In the battle of Russian art vs. modern Western commercialism, apparently the cust...
Grigory Pasko has brought to my attention to a recent issue of VESTNIK ATOMPROMa, a Russian “magazine about the nuclear industry”, which has been published by an enigmatically named Federal state unitary enterprise «Firm of commercial advertisemen...
I’ve long argued that the legal manipulation carried out during the state’s theft of Yukos and other abuses of courts (see the spy-mania trials) by the Federation has had enormously negative implications for rule of law and development...
Today Anne Applebaum observes that although not even Russians are celebrating the 90th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution this week, “Western weakness for other people’s revolutionary violence, the belief in the glamour and benevo...
Brian Whitmore of RFE/RL has a great new article called “Spinning the Kremlin“, which takes a look at political branding efforts of the Kremlin. The article paints a frightening picture of an increasingly sophisticated and polished sta...
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin meets Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao for talks in the Kremlin in Moscow November 5, 2007. REUTERS/RIA-Novosti/Kremlin (RUSSIA) The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe has confirmed that it will m...
Ariel Cohen of the Heritage Foundation has published an important new energy paper examining what needs to be done to solve Europe’s near total lack of coherence on a common energy security policy. The familiar trends and patterns of Russia&...
There’s another book review of Steve LeVine’s “The Oil and the Glory: The Pursuit of Empire and Fortune on the Caspian Sea” on EurasiaNet. Registan also reviewed the book, and Steve has done some innovative marketing with s...
IQ2U.S. has a 12-part (!) new debate series up on YouTube which pits Claudia Rosett, Bret Stephens and J. Michael Waller in an Oxford-style debate against Nina Khrushcheva, Robert Legvold and Mark Medish. The debate is moderated by journalist and ...
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