From the Washington Post’s coverage of Rice’s non-confrontational visit with Putin: After meeting with Rice on Saturday morning at the U.S. ambassador’s residence, Tatyana Lokshina, head of the Demos Center, a Russian human right...
FRONTLINE/WORLD, the interesting online video site of the popular PBS documentary series, has posted up a short clip of a Grigory Yavlinsky speech in St. Petersburg about the plans to build the Gazprom Tower, a controversial skyscraper that has co...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel, right, and Russian President Vladimir Putin review the honour guards at the Kurhaus resort garden in Wiesbaden, Germany, Monday, Oct. 15, 2007. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus) At least four regional figures from the A...
PwC literally getting iced in Russia (photo from www.pwc.com) Today’s news that Russia has extended its campaign against the accounting group PricewaterhouseCoopers for its work related Yukos is another reminder that pandering with the Russi...
A Cry from a Jar of Spiders By Grigory Pasko, journalist Kommersant recently published an article entitled “We must not allow warriors to turn into traders”, written by the head of the Federal Service of the Russian Federation for Control of the C...
Below is an exclusive translation of the important open letter published in Kommersant by a high level security official exposing the bitter infighting amongst the Kremlin’s various factions. Cherkesov, who is believed to be an opponent of I...
Last month we featured an exclusive translation from the German press by investigative journalist Hans-Martin Tillack about Gazprom and the “Gazoviki.” Now we’re posting a translation of the second article by the same journalist....
Even if President Vladimir Putin is catching some flak for his decision to stay in power as prime minister, or is starting to sweat the spy war opening up underneath his feet, he certainly hasn’t lost his sense of humor. According to reports...
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Russia’s President Vladimir Putin meet in the presidential residence in Novo-Ogaryovo outside Moscow October 12, 2007. REUTERS/RIA Novosti/KREMLIN (RUSSIA) A bill to put the country’s nuclear ...
The Economist makes a long-overdue call to jettison the language of the democracy debate, and come up with new, more accurate terms to talk about freedom and governance. A good shorthand term for the free, law-governed and public-spirited countrie...
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