An editorial in the Guardian argues that a failure on behalf of the U.S. Senate to ratify the START treaty would cause significant damage to the president’s ability to be taken seriously on the world stage. However the authors fail to ...
In earlier blog postings on this site, Grigory Pasko had been following the story of Lena Maglevannay, a journalist from Volgograd who was chased into exile by government pressure after publishing investigative pieces on the failings and abuses in...
Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin has hinted that the natural gas extraction tax could be increased. ‘Russia’s list of sustainability challenges, from nuclear waste to governance, is long, so climate change gets lost in the shuffle....
Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin acknowledges the current trend of higher taxes, but says that there is nothing temporary about the rises, and pointed to similar hikes in other countries, forecasts that taxes will rise by 2% of GDP from next year; K...
TODAY: NATO summit begins today; US pressured Bout to admit guilt, says Russia; Caspian summit projects united front; activists arrested in elite neighbourhood; Putin to host tiger summit; Kremlin will not investigate Duma income declarations; STA...
James M. Lindsay writes over on CFR.org on Obama’s full court press to get START ratified by the lame duck legislature, echoing the experience of Woodrow Wilson (almost). Not looking so good. The problem is votes. The White House...
Steve LeVine, who is certainly no starry-eyed apparatchik, remarks on just how loony the Congressional debate on START ratification is becoming. Did I miss something? Is the United States — or any other country on the Earth — under thr...
Right in the same week that the police of the Interior Ministry are seeking to have a criminal case opened against the dead lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, it looks like the procuracy have been kind enough to dismiss charges against Vera Trifonova, a bus...
Pipeline maker Transneft is facing serious corruption claims after a leaked document suggested that the company may have embezzled $4 billion during the construction of a pipeline to China. The Independent’s Shaun Walker looks at plans...
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