President Medvedev has voiced what some reports see as his strongest criticism of Iran to date at an ambassadorial meeting in Moscow, suggesting that Tehran may be using its nuclear program for the manufacturing of weapons. The US has appare...
Prime Minister Putin has promised to offer loans and subsidies to farmers of the 14 regions that have been badly affected by the worst drought Russia has seen in 38 years. An extended discount on fuel supplies to farmers is one part of the r...
TODAY: Russia ends ‘Forbidden Art’ trial with conviction and fine for curators; Voina protest at trial with insect infestation; challenge for extreme orthodox T-shirts; Russia failing Council of Europe on corruption; Nemtsov loses Luzh...
Japan is starting to get really pissed about these Russian military exercises on Etorofu Island, among the disputed territories of the Kuril Islands. From The Japan Times: A Russian Foreign Ministry official told ITAR-TASS that Russia “...
Amnesty International has released a statement which describes the convictions handed down against art curators Andrei Yerofeyev and Yuri Samodurov of the Andrei Sakharov Museum and Public Centre as “a blow to freedom of expression.”&n...
State oil company Zarubezhneft is apparently looking to further its collaboration with Vietnam, including enhancing the crude reserves of their RusVietPetro joint venture. The Chevron-led venture TengizChevroil has rebuffed claims from the K...
The Moscow Times reports on the rather lackluster performance of Russia’s sixteen special economic zones, which have attracted only $4.7 billion in investment in over four years, a fact which some critics say should be taken as a warning to ...
TODAY: New bill signals major blow to freedom of assembly; ‘light’ version of FSB bill passed; opposition activists arrested; corrupt officer law pushed through; law to keep deputies attending Duma. Chechen president turnaround o...
I’ve been getting a lot of phone calls lately from people asking me to comment on the exchange of the Russian spies for … other Russian spies. Just in this one fact alone you can feel the obvious idiocy of the situation. They exchanged...
I’m not sure anybody has “won” the spy swap, but here goes some unnamed sources talking to the Financial Times: “The ones the west has acquired are much more valuable than the ones sent back to Russia,” said a former ...
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