Apart from the train attack, it is one slow news day out of Russia. It seems that everyone is on vacation: Anne Applebaum writes about the summer destinations of our world leaders, the New York Times notes that Cécilia Sarkozy may have faked a sor...
Leon Aron has an interesting article out this month making a compelling argument about the perception of “chaos” in Russia’s restructuring of the economy. A second article is promised for later this summer. Below is a short excer...
Last night the Neva Express train was derailed by what is believed to have been a homemade bomb while traveling between Moscow and St. Petersburg. More than 60 people were injured, but no deaths were reported. Within hours authorities announced th...
The news that LiveJournal blogger Savva Terentyev, a young man resident in Syktyvkar, is being charged for allegedly “inciting hate” against police officers on his blog, is a serious and frightening development in Russia’s crackd...
When you make the decision to steal a company, don’t you also thereby steal any of that group’s outstanding debts? Apparently not in Russia, where whatever inconvenient legal decision that is not approved by Rosneft gets overturned by ...
Today’s news of PepsiCo’s significant planned purchase of a majority stake in the Russian juice company Lebedyansky is another indication of the buoyant enthusiasm of Western firms to compete with their rivals for Russia’s boomin...
Lest we become too obsessed with Russia’s politicized oil and gas sector, there are also concerns that the massive mining clout held by Norilsk Nickel could be mobilized as another Kremlin weapon in the case of nationalization. Rumors say th...
The Telegraph is running an aggressive editorial today to accompany their report on the harrowing resurgence of “punitive psychiatry” in today’s Russia. Things are different in modern Russia, where, as we report in horrifying det...
Nina Khrushcheva has a new op/ed in the IHT taking on Putin’s Russia from a literary analysis: In Gogol’s Russia, which is also, sadly, Vladmir Putin’s Russia, individual needs are neglected, the state’s needs are overstate...
[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...
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