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Russia Calls for “Painstaking Inquiry” into Journalist Death
Following the tragic death of Russian photojournalist Dmitry Chebotayev in Iraq, the Russian government has suprisingly and swiftly lept to action to defend the safety of journalists. According a statement cited RFE, the Foreign Ministry is callin...
Grigory Pasko: Guilty without Guilt
The Land Where You Sit: Guilty without Guilt They falsely charge a man with murder and then don’t even apologize By Grigory Pasko, journalist One of the principal features of a state is that it has its own army and police. We all know what conditi...
Bulgarian Energy Minister Suspended on Corruption Charges
There are reports that Bulgaria’s Minister of Energy Rumen Ovcharov, the man who masterminded numerous agreements for the country with Gazprom, has been suspended by PM Sergei Stanishev for his alleged involvement in a corruption scandal. Bu...
The Rent-a-Chancellor Road Show
The rent-a-chancellor road show continues this week in Finland, as Gerhard Schroeder arrives in Helsinki to defend his characterization of Vladimir Putin as “a model democrat,” and urge Europe to back the North European Gas Pipeline &#...
Hiatt Taps the Soviet Hangover
Fred Hiatt at the Washington Post has a column today about the Russia-Estonia diplo-circus, in which he hits on Russia’s efforts to gain respect in the international community as causing some turbulence in identity politics. It is a reasonab...
The Three Strikes of Russian Energy Supply Cuts
Andy Young at Siberian Light has a post cataloging the politically motivated disruptions of Russia’s oil supply, prompted by the news coming out of Estonia. As I mentioned in a post from my last trip to Estonia and my meeting with President ...
The Polittechnologist: Stolen Twice
Stolen Twice By the Polittechnologist I nearly fell out of my chair as I listened to Putin’s recent “state of the union” address to the Federal Assembly. I couldn’t believe my ears – he had actually allowed the word “YUKOS” to pass his lips again ...
In Search of Real Estate Gains, Kremlin Collides with Academia
The Sunday Telegraph published a fascinating interview with Vitaly Ginzburg, a 90-year-old Russian scientist who has found himself in the middle of the battle over the Academy of Sciences’ independence from state control. Previously we’...
Derek Brower: Tallinn’s turn
Russia blocks exports of oil to another neighbour and Europe is silent By Derek Brower, journalist WHATEVER the rights and wrongs of the dispute between Russia and Estonia about a statue in the centre of Tallinn, the decision of Russia’s state-con...
