Everybody has heard of Potemkin villages. They say that during Catherine the Great’s era, many villages were ordered built by Grigory Potemkin in which the only thing real was the facade. Viewed from the front, it seems as though there is a ...
Bulgaria’s former prime minister has criticized the current government for pulling out of plans to build a Burgas-Alexandroupolis pipeline with Russia and Greece, questioning its apparent motive of environmental safety. The Nabucco pip...
Hello dear readers … my apologies for the relative absence recently – both RA and I have been wrapped up in a number of summer projects which deprived us of blogging time. Over the next few weeks we will probably be a little ligh...
The Moscow Times reports on Russia’s ‘geek shortage‘ (lack of young, IT-savvy personnel, that is). Why is St Petersburg’s Pulkovo Airport such an expensive project? Largely due to investor pessimism, which leads...
TODAY: Medvedev responds to survey on modernization; case against anti-government newspaper thrown out; Dymovsky interview; Limonov to pull out of Strategy 31 filings; NATO praises military relations with Russia; Russian helicopter lands ‘in...
“She is quite sexy, you could say, but she is not a spy,” says attorney Scott Palmer of his client Anna Fermanova, who was arrested in mid-July after allegedly attempting to smuggle restricted millitary night-vision equipment from the ...
Here’s an interesting report from the Moscow Times: The cost of the average bribe in Russia has doubled over the last six months. Paradoxically, the reason behind the increase appears to be Medvedev’s fight against corruption. Some say...
Writing in the Financial Post, Tim Shufelt takes a look at Russia’s recently-announced plan to sell off minority shares in some of the country’s biggest companies. He argues the move doesn’t represent any significant trend toward...
Russia’s tightrope walk over the widening chasm between Iran and the Western world is getting confusing. A quick recap: Last month Russia supported UN sanctions imposed on Iran, then promptly promised Iran cooperation in the oil and gas indu...
Russia has rejected the ‘irresponsible rhetoric‘ of Iran’s criticism of Russian support for UN sanctions, calling it ‘unacceptable‘. Sources suggest that Transneft will not be part of discussions for a governmen...
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