For those of you who have not yet seen Sergey Kolesnikov’s open letter to President Dmitry Medvedev regarding allegations of corruption by Vladimir Putin’s entourage to extort upwards of a billion dollars to build a personal palace on ...
Paul Goble has summarized an important argument by Olesya Yakhno published on Vlasti.net with regard to the increasingly tenuous illusion of stability in the wake of violent race riots at the walls of the Kremlin. It’s these perceptions and ...
Writing in the Guardian, Timothy Garton Ash argues that it’s time that Europe actually put a bit of pressure on the dictatorial regime of Alexander Lukashenko in Belarus, especially following his latest stolen election. You’d be ...
The U.N. nuclear agency says a considerable amount of highly radioactive nuclear waste from a defunct Serbian reactor, including 13 kilograms of uranium enriched at a level close to that used to make nuclear warheads, has been sent back to Russia....
Funds garnered ‘mainly through a combination of corruption, bribery and theft’, paid for Putin’s sprawling Black Sea palace, a whistle-blower tells David Ignatius in the Washington Post. Someone from the Prime Minister̵...
TODAY: The New York Times reveals disquieting details from official investigation into Magnitsky death; Moscow police chief blames outsiders for racial tensions; Strategy 31 displeased with rally sanctions; Novaya Gazeta and Wikileaks partn...
Now that New START has finally been passed by the Senate – which was going to happen at some point or another – conservative commentator Jacob Heilbrunn observes that the Republicans damaged their national security credibility by oppos...
Bloomberg has a strange news story on a deal brokered between Julian Assange and Novaya Gazeta – the opposition newspaper owned by liberal billionaire Alexander Lebedev and Mikhail Gorbachev. Apparently Assange has granted them access ...
Dmitry Medvedev has had an action-packed trip to Mumbai. Accompanied by a delegation of some 100 state businessmen, the Russian president arrived in Delhi to announce his high regard for their “privileged” partnership, and urged ...
Global miner Rio Tinto is apparently finalizing a $3.8 billion takeover bid for much-coveted, Africa-focused Riversdale Mining. According to an unidentified oil ministry official, Oil & Natural Gas Corp. and Sistema have agreed to combin...
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