TODAY: Russia condemns Libyan repression; backs UN sanctions; how unrest in the Middle East affects the diarchy. New police reform law; skepticism as to its effects; Pearl Ensign trial delayed; Navalny proposes anti-United Russia election st...
Clifford J. Levy has a good piece in the New York Times today on the resilience of authoritarianism in the former Soviet sphere. The only thing I take issue with is that it seems like Levy’s takes it at face value when these leaders pr...
Earlier this week we came across a very interesting article published in the Spanish newspaper El Pais by Joaquín Villalobos, a former Salvadoran FMLN guerrilla fighter turned peace ambassador. His experiences working to bring change under one of ...
Kyrgyzstan is currently undergoing the difficult process of a fundamental restructuring of the state’s administrative apparatus. The recently elected parliament is attempting to adopt new laws, for example, on the federal budget for current ...
Few and far between are the opportunities for opposition politicians to have a platform on Russia’s state-tun television (or Russia’s state-run streets, it would seem). Nonetheless, Channel One’s Vladimir Pozner has apparen...
Oil and Gas Eurasia report on a slight drop in oil prices this morning on news that protests in North Africa have calmed somewhat. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has described the spate of highest prices since August 2008 as ‘a serious ...
Political turmoil in Libya seems to have had a positive effect on Russia’s first-ever ruble Eurobond, which raised $1.37 billion yesterday, as the ruble itself hit a ten-month high. Russian exchange trade funds are, this report says, d...
TODAY: Russia rejects idea of Libya sanctions; Putin cautions EU against Western meddling; 7 sacked from interior ministry; Domodedovo death counts rise to 37. Russia embarks upon major military spending program; Mistral warships to go to Ku...
Even though Vladimir Putin has already remarked that the high oil prices resulting from the Libyan crisis must be brought under control, it looks like we had better hold onto our hats for a bumpy ride. From Robert Baer at TIME: There’s...
This article in the London Review of Books by television executive Peter Pomerantsev explores the challenges of corruption in the entertainment business as well as various reasons why attempts to adapt Western reality TV programs for a Russian aud...
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