Iran has confirmed that it has invited International Atomic Energy Agency ambassadors to tour nuclear facilities in the Islamic Republic. Tehran reportedly dispatched invites to Russia, China and a handful of EU member states, leaving the US...
President Medvedev has reportedly signed a decree to reduce the number of civil servants by 20% within three years. This article explores Digital Sky Technology’s numerous business interests in the US, besides Facebook. The New Y...
TODAY: Ekho Moskvy correspondent detained for report on Strategy 31 detainees; Dec 31 crackdown draws US criticism; Belarus frees one presidential candidate; Lithuania hopes to intervene on Minsk’s OSCE decision. Medvedev to put off Is...
In some old Soviet film-fairytale, I think it may have been Ali-Baba, there was a memorable character who played the role of a midnight town crier. Something like a watchman, but one who brought the reassuring news. He walked at night through the ...
Anatoly Chubais hasn’t ruffled anybody’s feathers in quite a while, so it comes as a surprise that he has broken ranks with officialdom over the arrest and 15-day detention order of Boris Nemtsov. On the other hand, Chubais has o...
Jackson Diehl of the Washington Post has some sharp criticism for Hillary Clinton’s inconsistencies on human rights – illustrated by some recent pandering to the ruling regime in Bahrain. Clinton’s condescending reply was a pure ...
The New York Times reports that Russia’s oil output rose by 2.2% in 2010 to a record-breaking 10.1 million barrels per day as higher prices prompted an increase in production. Meanwhile natural gas output increased by 11.5 % in 2010, a...
State-owned VTB Capital has warned that the new jail sentence handed to Mikhail Khodorkovsky could have ‘unintended repercussions’ for business in Russia. Bloomberg reports that social networking giant Facebook has raised $500 mi...
TODAY: 68 people detained at Dec 31 rally including opposition leaders Nemtsov and Limonov; Viktor Bout reportedly rejects ‘plea bargain’; Khodorkovsky’s son speaks of personal vendetta against his father; Belarus continues oppos...
In an attempt to get 2011 off to a good start with more active personal blogging, I thought I would share a few links of articles that I’m reading today. If you happen to be one of the handful of people out there still looking for Russ...
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