The breaking news today is that President Vladimir Putin has announced he will run for parliament, and that it is “entirely realistic” that he become prime minister. My most immediate thought: as long as he is in government, does it re...
Former world chess champion and leader of “The Other Russia” party Garry Kasparov speaks during a congress in Moscow. Kasparov was named Sunday as the Other Russia opposition party’s candidate for next year’s presidential e...
English-language translation of statement of September 27, 2007 by Mikhail Khodorkovsky: “Please inform all my lawyers that I am withdrawing the defence from participation in the court hearing about the extension of my custody. The reason fo...
From a Reuters article covering the extremism trial in Russia of the political analyst Andrei Piontkovsky: In one of the book’s chapters, the author imagines Putin walking along the beach in France, not long after the Cannes Film Festival, a...
Although we are a few days late, Eliezer Yudkowsky has an excellent blog post calling for a celebration to honor Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov, and admirable and courageous Russian who once saved the world from nuclear holocaust. From Overcoming B...
From today’s painful Bloomberg article: “Investors seek no ‘post-Putin’ Russia” Even some investors who acknowledge the economic benefits of a still-powerful Putin say there are risks in the system’s lack of tra...
Andrew Kuchins from CSIS has a rather obvious article in the Washington Post today. Although he offers little in the way of new information, at least he seems to have done a better job resisting the regime’s seduction at the Valdai discussio...
Sergey Lavrov, minister of foreign affairs of the Russian Federation speaks to the press at the presentation of Russia Today and Rusia al-Yaum English and Arabic news channels, Thursday, Sept. 27, 2007 in New York. (AP Photo/Dima Gavrysh) In his f...
For all that is said about the enigma of Russian politics and the “impenetrable” opacity of Putin’s Kremlin, much can be gleaned from their imagined history – the much ballyhooed new school textbook created by the governmen...
Photo: AP Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, during a visit to President Alexander Lukashenko of Belarus in July 2006: “There are many possibilities now for forming a strategic alliance to save the world from madness, wars and color revolutions.” W...
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