Boris Nemtsov gave a speech yesterday (via link) at the History, Memory and Politics in Eastern and Central Europe conference convened by the University of Toronto, where Robert Amsterdam was among the speakers. Peter Goodspeed of the Nation...
The New York Times has an interesting article today about Russian hackers. A hacker operating under the moniker BadB was pursued by the United States Secret Service and arrested in France earlier this month. The difficulty in catching BadB, say ex...
Journalist and author Douglas Farah writes about what intel Viktor Bout could (but would be unlikely to) share with U.S. authorities If the extradition goes through (and under Thai law there are no further appeals allowed), what could Bout offer i...
RFE/RL brings this report and video from Moscow’s weekend rallly and concert, organized by Khimki forest activists. Uncharacteristically, the event received permission from city officials. But the permission was revoked at the last minute. W...
Iran has joined the world’s nuclear power generating nations after launching the Bushehr nuclear power plant with Russia’s Rosatom this weekend. The Guardian has images. The head of the Iran’s atomic energy organizati...
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin will visit Norilsk Nickel this week amid the Vladimir Potanin / Oleg Deripaska shareholder dispute that has been ongoing at the company since June. Reuters reports that ‘Putin […] is believed to pers...
TODAY: Crowd gathers to listen to songs in Moscow Khimki protest, anti-Putin protest in Kaliningrad; Nemtsov detained for trying to march; forest head sacked; blogger under fire from United Russia for snubbing comment request; Moscow Metro bomber ...
Stephen Rademaker, a former Assistant Secretary of State under the Bush administration, has published a criticism of the Senate’s handling of the new START treaty with Russia in the Washington Post, which unlike the ping-pong match started b...
It has long been a subject of wild speculation as to why the Russian government has lobbied to bring home the reputed arms dealer Viktor Bout, who is currently detained in Thailand and, according to a recent announcement, may in fact be extradited...
Rosatom is emphasizing the fact that, although it led the project, over ten EU and Asia-Pacific countries have contributed to the construction of Iran’s Bushehr nuclear power plant, and says that ‘criticism of Bushehr distracts from th...
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