Today the Wall Street Journal has a long feature story about the rising fortunes of one working class family in Russia, and how economic growth continues to bolster Putin’s popularity despite some unpopular authoritarian measures. The articl...
There’s nothing a popular president enjoys more than a chance to meet informally with his adoring electorate to chat one on one about the issues that concern the common man. And Russia’s Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin is no exception. It...
The Weekly Standard follows the money in Russia’s upcoming elections, and says it makes much more sense to ask the Kremlin to live up to its G8 commitments, rather than call for their removal from the group. A czar, of course, never comes al...
VOTE HERE Dear Readers, I launched this modest blog project on Sept. 4, 2006, as a platform to share news about my work in Russia, raise awareness of the political situation in the region, and encourage debate and exchange of opinion over a variet...
[Last month I traveled to Singapore for a speech before the International Bar Association, and had the opportunity to meet with many talented human rights lawyers and democracy advocates. Among them was the leader of Singapore’s opposition p...
A full translation of the Glucksmann article is forthcoming. In the meantime, the momentum continues in the German press… From Sight and Sound‘s press round up: Die Welt 02.11.2007 Andre Glucksmann writes an appeal for Mikhail Khodorko...
On Tuesday, Robert Amsterdam argued on this blog that Russia will try to maintain the status quo of the relationship between Iran and the United States for as long as possible in order to advance its interests, as well as the possibility of an upc...
This week the German airline Lufthansa has found itself in a significant dispute with the Russian government, when their freight carrier subsidiary was banned from flyovers of Russian airspace – a political decision of enormous economic impa...
[Editor’s note: while this blog is ostensibly about Russian affairs, we also have a strong interest in global energy politics, and will be making an effort to occasionally branch out to discuss the impact of state-owned energy firms on the m...
Enemies of the People Everywhere or My Latest Contacts with Rosatom By Grigory Pasko, journalist In today’s Russia, if you voice your opinion, you can easily find yourself categorized as a “slanderer of the existing power” or as someone who, suppo...
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