We had no idea that this competition existed, but according to one expert, Estonia has beat out the heated competition from Latvia and Poland to become Russia’s #1 most inconvenient neighbour. Regnum: “I can say, a kind of an international c...
Russia’s new Prime Minister Viktor Zubkov chairs his first government meeting in Moscow September 20, 2007. (Photo: REUTERS/RIA-Novosti/Kremlin) In a signal that Russia intends to be taken seriously as a democratic entity, business leaders a...
Call me a Euroskeptic, but in recent years I have become accustomed to watching many, if not most, controversial policy initiatives go before Brussels only to die, caught up in a web of extravagant bureaucracy that would make even Kafka shudder. E...
A Fist Full of Euros has posted the first in a series on the Frozen Conflicts in the breakaway Moldovan Republic of Transnistria. See also past blog posts by Edward Lucas and Lyndon at Scraps of Moscow. AFOE: As for the conflict itself… well, it’s...
Today in the Wall Street Journal there is an interesting op/ed which focuses on the urgent questions of sovereignty and foreign policy in the context of energy relations. Both India and China, widely acknowledged to be the world’s two strong...
The Guardian is running an interview with Boris Akunin, AKA Grigory Chkhartishvili, who has become widely known as the JK Rowling of current Russian writers. His historical detective novels, based in the Tsarist era, have reached unprecedented hei...
Representatives of the pro-Kremlin United Russia party and the opposition Communist Party debate in the Interfax news agency office in Moscow on Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2007. (Photo: AP) This week the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs...
Today I saw this interesting article in Kommersant, which gives an overview of the Russian government’s unlawful takeover of the oil sector. The reporters don’t provide any new information, but for readers who are not familiar with thi...
A Doormat for his Masters’ Feet… By Grigory Pasko, journalist Senior Investigator for Particularly Important Cases of the Procuracy-General of the Russian Federation Salavat Karimov, who had headed the investigation in two criminal cases against M...
Vladimir Zhirinovsky has some choice words for Britain at a news conference for Andrei Lugovoi’s Duma campaign in Moscow on Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2007. (Photo: AP) Media are beginning to debate the legacy of Vladimir Putin’s eight years in powe...
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