Although I believe, perhaps unfortunately, that we are far away from concluding the will-he-won’t-he, Putin or Medvedev, or split-in-the-tandem cycle of empty news stories, this is quite an interesting little development. According to covera...
Norman Stone, in his recent history of Cold War, tells how British academic Phillip Windsor remarked upon seeing the fall of the Berlin Wall on the television that it was an end of an empire. When his companion asked whether he meant the Soviet on...
Sometimes a quote of the week just walks up on a Saturday morning and slaps you in the face before you’ve even had the chance to grab a coffee. Alexander Lukashenko, ever the master of the dark autocratic arts, is quoted by Michael Sch...
Sometimes a quote of the week just walks up on a Saturday morning and slaps you in the face before you’ve even had the chance to grab a coffee. Alexander Lukashenko, ever the master of the dark autocratic arts, is quoted by Michael Sch...
If the thought of President Dmitry Medvedev rocking out to 90s pop hits sets your pulse racing, then look away now, because the actual video is beyond your imagination’s very wildest, and may push you over the edge. The video, slyly ca...
If the thought of President Dmitry Medvedev rocking out to 90s pop hits sets your pulse racing, then look away now, because the actual video is beyond your imagination’s very wildest, and may push you over the edge. The video, slyly ca...
Yesterday saw Vladimir Putin give his final annual report to the State Duma before next year’s presidential elections, and his emphasis on stability and long-term investment in key areas such as defense and infrastructure has led to most com...
Vladimir Putin has advised both Rosneft and TNK-BP to cooperate with ‘such a respectable company as BP‘, and said that his initial approval for the Rosneft-BP tie-up was made without knowledge of ‘any mutual obligation to TNK-BP....
Vladimir Putin has advised both Rosneft and TNK-BP to cooperate with ‘such a respectable company as BP‘, and said that his initial approval for the Rosneft-BP tie-up was made without knowledge of ‘any mutual obligation to TNK-BP....
The Office of the Attorney General of Switzerland says it has officially launched a criminal investigation in relation to money laundering, but has stopped short of naming the suspect, who is thought to be former tax official Olga Stepanova. ...
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