TODAY: Deaths in detention reach hundreds; step forward for media freedom with damages ruling; Nikolai Alekseyev speaks out on abduction; Baturina puts the blame for anti-Luzhkov campaign on 2012 election. Pentagon takes issue with missile sale to...
David J. Kramer of the German Marshall Fund has published a scathing op/ed in the Washington Post blaming U.S. officials of complicity in Russia’s repression of protesters. Kramer has a laundry list of suggestions for Washington to cre...
Reuters reports that apparently the Macondo well, whose rupture prompted the worst oil spill in US history, has been fully plugged. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has told ABC’s ‘This Week’ program that Iran is ̵...
The Sochi investment forum, led by an apparently optimistic Vladimir Putin, saw investors from the United Arab Emirates pledge to spend $800 million in deals. A total of 88 contracts at the sum of 218.5 billion rubles were signed during the ...
TODAY: Khodorkovsky warns UK coalition against improving relations with Russia; the status of women; extradition quandary for Poland on Chechen separatist; Russia will sell cruise missiles to Syria. Luzhkov to take time off; speculation abou...
Gregory Feifer and Brian Whitmore have published a much-awaited (at least for us) investigative report in the New Republic looking into Russia’s ambitious nuclear diplomacy and foreign policy with the Czech Republic, which has been producing...
A planned deal between Transneft and Summa Capital to purchase a controlling stake in Novorossiisk Commercial Sea Port, and combine it with their Primorsk port, would, according to Bloomberg, ‘further cement Russian state control over export...
Deputy Finance Minister Anton Siluanov has pledged that the Kremlin will stand by Russia’s 460 monotowns, despite analysts warning that they are burdensome millstones around the neck of the country’s economy. According to the WSJ...
TODAY: Opposition coalition lays out plans for 2012 bid; Putin domain name indicating he will run for President? Case into mysterious death of journalist re-opened; gay activist detained. Senate Foreign Relations Committee says yes to START; Zakay...
Like many others, I was impressed by Microsoft’s rather quick and commendable reaction to the New York Times piece that exposed alleged cooperation in unlawful raids and repression by state security forces over opposition and environmental N...
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