Why Medvedev’s trip to Silicon Valley may yield little in the way of concrete results, from Reuters. Ria-Novosti has a round-up of the trip. Russia already has several science parks, which have not flourished – why sh...
TODAY: Torture in prison system will be ignored by government say human rights activists; Magnitsky supporters turn up heat on Interior Ministry with new tactics; jailed businessman fears Magnitsky’s fate; Caucasus troubles. Medvedev gives t...
Say what you will about Lilia Shevtsova, but she knows how to get good quote. From Peter Baker in the New York Times. “Western capital helps to support the status quo,” said Lilia Shevtsova, an analyst at the Carnegie Moscow Cent...
I still haven’t heard a completely satisfactory answer to this question, but Stephen Sestanovich at CFR is getting warmer. As the killing in Kyrgyzstan escalated, some American analysts feared that Moscow saw disorder there as a chance...
Some people are not so impressed by Medvedev’s idea to build a Silicon Valley at Skolkovo. Vladimir Babkin, an expert at the State Duma’s committee for science and technology, says the Skolkovo-Silicon Valley analogy is flawed from the...
In early 2007 the Vladivostok newspaper Konkurent published an article under the headline “Putin and the price of the question,” which dealt with the preparations to host the Asian-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) 2012 forum. The ne...
Gas tensions are fully flaring: Gazprom has increased the cut on supplies to Belarus to 60% of normal volumes. Belarus is reportedly threatening to halt transit to Europe, with President Alexander Lukashenko demanding that the Russian export...
‘My advice to U.S. technology companies is to steer clear of Russia because it’s insanity to go there’: Bill Browder is having none of Medvedev’s investor incentives. The President has been tweeting from Silicon Valle...
TODAY: How damning OCSE report on Caucasus rights record received Russian backing; Nashi youth camp for region; Nemtsov takes Luzhkov complaint to Strasbourg; Medvedev’s first meeting with Obama puts politics back on the agenda after innovat...
Mark Medish has a thoughtful column in the International Herald Tribune which gets right at the central question being debated during this week’s visit by President Medvedev to Washington: Is Russia’s current pro-Western rhetoric...
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