Here’s a the latest music video from Noize MC, aka Ivan Alexeyev, the Russian rapper who was arrested earlier this month and jailed for 10 days for insulting the police during one of his performances. Once again, Alexeyev targets Russia̵...
This looks like a pretty interesting read. From Foreign Policy (hat tip reader AM): A new memoir by Swedish businessman Lennart Dahlgren explores just that quandary. Dahlgren spent nearly a decade battling bureaucrats to bring furniture gian...
As wildfires around Moscow dwindle down, many continue asking why the wildfire catastrophe in Russia was allowed to escalate to such a high level. In a Moscow Times opinion piece, Yevgenia Albats argues that part of the problem is that local gover...
Germany’s Saxony is to spend $12.75 million sending a shipment of nuclear waste to Russia this year, ‘the only country in the world accepting uranium hexafluoride in industrial quantities.‘ ‘Russia has long played a r...
An extension of the grain export ban, currently due to last until December 31, will not be decided until October, according to First Deputy Prime Minister Viktor Zubkov, who also announced that thus far, over $450 million (just under half of the a...
TODAY: Fewer Moscow fires but other regions still suffering, pollution spreads to Nizhny Novgorod, extreme weather hits Leningrad; Ponomaryov hospitalized after arrest; Kremlin-appointed Luzhkov; Kadyrov calls for regional heads to have common tit...
During President Dmitry Medvedev’s visit to Silicon Valley earlier this year to pitch Russia as the next hotbed of technological innovation, the industry responded with guarded interest. Well yes, sure, that sounds great, but what are you go...
Here’s an entertaining look at the origin of “militsia”, the term for Russian police that Medvedev wants to change as part of his police overhaul. From Michele A. Berdy’s piece in the Moscow Times: Right now, the law enforc...
Reuters has a concise summary of a Levanda Center opinion poll on Russia’s leadership, which was released yesterday. Putin’s approval rating remains quite high at 59%. The catch: the survey was conducted before the disastrous wildfires...
Leading climatologists are searching for ways to forecast incidents of extreme weather, such as the ongoing heatwave. President Dmitry Medvedev’s goal is to lower the amount of energy spent per unit of economic output by 40% by 2020: M...
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