TODAY: Russia wins World Cup bid; EU wants human rights element of agreement with Russia; Tolyatti protest; Voronezh seeking information on Islamists; Strategy 31 protesters will not budge; WikiLeaks continue but is anyone surprised? 55 killed in ...
NIkolai Petrov’s article in the Moscow Times about the president’s recent address to the Duma is pretty much spot on. It was very disappointing to hear such a weak and unguided speech from Mr. Medvedev, which focused on the soft ...
From Andrew Osborn in The Telegraph with regard to Vladimir Putin, Wikileaks, the murder of Alexander Litvinenko: In fact, far from being offended by this latest accusation, Mr Putin may even be revelling in it. Though some of the other leaked cab...
Following Wikileaks, Julia Ioffe has a good round up published in The Daily Beast of the bromantic adventures of Silvio Berlusconi and Vladimir Putin, from pretending to shoot journalists at press conferences, hanging with Jean-Claude Van Damme to...
A US embassy cable leaked by WikiLeaks suggests that Russia’s oil industry is rife with ‘secret deals‘ using intermediaries to gather profits, and that Swiss firm Gunvor is one such firm, ‘rumored to be one of Putin’s...
It is looking likely that Russia and the EU will sign a document on the former’s accession to the WTO next week. RusAl has appointed Sberbank and VTB Capital to help it with a listing of depositary receipts. (Sourceless) reports ...
TODAY: New WikiLeaks on Litvinenko, Bout, high-level corruption, Georgia, and Putin’s wealth. Putin will not attend Russia’s World Cup bid; Larry King interview transcript; Fedotov outlines aims; AIDS protesters detained. New Wik...
Writing on the New York Review of Books Blog, Timothy Snyder comments on the recent motion passed by the Duma on Friday which declared Joseph Stalin’s responsibility for the massacre at Katyn, Poland. Since the fall of communism in 1989, Pol...
It appears that the deep isolation of Hugo Chavez has hollowed out Venezuela’s relationship with Russia. Moscow probably doesn’t mind so long as he keeps the money flowing on arms. From the Financial Times on Wikileaks and ...
Judging by the profound glibness shown by a wide range of U.S. officials in response to the latest Wikileaks document dump, you’d think that Julian Assange had simply republished a pile of old newspapers. “I’m not entirely sure w...
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