Soon Fradkov will be listening to entirely different translations “When a person insists on doing things in a way so that no one can understand anything until the last minute – why spend time on imitating analysis?” – Fyodo...
Below is a ten-minute news video from Al Jazeera English on the latest Putin-Parliament news. Recommended viewing for all the interesting archival photographs of the president. Includes interviews with Alexander Pikaev, Pavel Felgenhauer, and Mark...
Photo: AFP Stay tuned to this blog on Sunday, October 7 for a series of commemorative posts dedicated to slain Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya on the anniversary of her tragic death. We’ll have some new articles, excerpts from books, p...
After complimenting Russia’s strong economic growth, the International Monetary Fund got down to business in statements made today: The IMF warned of the need to control government spending, saying it ‘would increase pressures for real...
From Courrier International, quoting die tageszeitung: Last week Russian President Vladimir Putin declared his intention of remaining active in politics after the next election. In an interview with Klaus-Helge Donath, the popular Russian satirist...
Members of pro-Kremlin youth organisations rally near cardboard cut-outs of President Putin and United Russia party leader Boris Gryzlov. (Photo: Reuters) Putin’s decision to head the pro-Kremlin Unified Russia party’s list of candidates for...
Judith Armstrong of the Contemporary Europe Research Centre in Australia has published an excellent opinion article in one of Australia’s largest newspapers about Robert Amsterdam’s recent visit and the complexity surrounding the myth ...
From the Associated Press: In missive from Siberian prison, tycoon Khodorkovsky makes appeal for living by high morals MOSCOW: Mikhail Khodorkovsky, a former billionaire oil tycoon who has become a poster boy for the political opposition, has sent...
Are things in Russia better or worse than a year ago? The Economist has a new editorial on the one year anniversary of the murder of Anna Politkovskaya: But she would have noticed some flickers of good news too. Kremlin pressure against Estonia, G...
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