A very interesting article has been posted up by the DC think tank American Enterprise Institute, which is one of many organizations to have recently been inundated by a letter writing campaign from the Kremlin-sponsored Nashi youth group. The ard...
Yesterday as two of Russia’s most powerful businessmen clashed, there was clear evidence of state pressure to remove one from the equation and guide these energy assets into the hands of a more obedient owner. The “crime” rumored...
Sergei Mironov, who seems to have the official job as the third-term cheerleader, has once again come forward to announce that the party will nominate Vladimir Putin to run for president once again in 2012. Mironov also said he was sure that after...
The announcement this weekend that Gazprom will be taking over majority stakes in two critical power generation entities of UES as part of an asset swap marks a disturbing setback in the reform plans to liberalize the sector. Following these acqui...
Over on our German blog we’ve got an interesting article posted from Der Spiegel titled “Lighthouse of Hope” which addresses the deplorable state of the Russian legal system and interviews several parties bringing claims before E...
In this weekend’s New York Times, the academic and journalist Mark Lilla reviews Lesley Chamberlain’s “Motherland: A Philosophical History of Russia.” From NYT: In the 19th century, Pilate’s question “What is truth?” was transformed in...
This weekend a small comment I had prepared some time ago appeared alongside many other Russia commentators as part of an online roundtable organized by the Center for International Relations entitled “Russia’s Relations with the West:...
From Christopher Caldwell in the Financial Times: Putin’s Colonial Exploitation “What they are offering us is obviously a vestige of colonial thinking,” was Russian president Vladimir Putin’s bizarre assessment this week of continuing British call...
As Mikhail Kasyanov tells the Economist, the liberal opposition is having trouble gaining a foothold in Russia because so many have tragically been led to believe that economic growth and democratic freedoms are mutually exclusive qualities: Few R...
From Reuters: President Vladimir Putin’s aides plan to beef up a Kremlin advisory body known as the Security Council, turning it in effect into a parallel cabinet before his departure next year, a Moscow newspaper said on Thursday. … &...
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