Wheat prices are coming back down as the drought spike stabilizes. Nikolai Petrov is unimpressed with the Kremlin’s new, English-language ModernRussia website: ‘the Kremlin’s naive goal of trying to create a positive image ...
During my last trip to Kenya on the Georges Tadonki trial, I had the opportunity to develop an association with the lawyer Evans Monari of Daly & Figgis Advocates (photo – center), who is one of the best known business and human rights l...
TODAY: Weather causes underground fires and air pollution; Chichvarkin seeks investigation into mother’s death; Ukrainian activists detained over Kirill protests; eleventh spy discovered in Canada? Military hazing on the rise; Satanism...
In the Huffington Post this weekend, Simon Shuster takes a look at the anatomy of Putin’s populism. Apparently, Putin told a pee joke during his visit to a beach in the town of Chelyabinsk on Friday: Upon noticing that there were no public t...
Putin certainly knows how to make headlines. His by-now-famous sing-along during a meeting with the recently-deported Russian spies was top news in dozens of papers this weekend. International media have picked up on the chilling overtones of the ...
Writing in Foreign Policy, Charles Recknagel offers a (somewhat) hopeful look at the troubled Kyrgyzstan, arguing that, following the recent approval of the country’s new constitution, “Kyrgyzstan became the strongest parliamentary sys...
BP is apparently considering selling its 50% stake in TNK-BP in its efforts to raise cash to pay for the Gulf of Mexico spill. Many sources suggest that BP will announce the departure of Tony Hayward today, and his replacement by Robert Dudl...
Russia could sell state assets in banks and energy companies worth as much as $29 billion as part of its efforts to boost the budget in the coming years. ‘The biggest companies will be up for sale in such a way that the government keeps cont...
TODAY: Russia gets its first black politician; Putin rides motorbikes and sings patriotic songs with spies; Baksanskaya terrorists killed? Weather breaks records; Khimki forest activist interview; pickets against Kirill banned in Ukraine; Strategy...
At Russia Profile’s expert panel this week, Vladimir Belaeff of the Global Society Institute and Ethan S. Burger, of the Centre for Transnational Crime Prevention at the University of Wollongong, Australia, debate whether it’s possible...
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