You may know Mikhail Gorbachev best as the last leader of the Soviet Union, as a critic of the Putin government, or maybe as a Louis Vuitton ad man. But you probably didn’t know that he can read minds! At least that’s what ...
There’s an interesting interview in the Kyiv Post with James Sherr, head of the Russian and Eurasian program at Chatham House. Sherr argues that Viktor Yanukovych has miscalculated the rapprochement policy with Russia, and why Europe a...
Dmitry Medvedev and Angela Merkel are reportedly in agreement on the idea of sanctions over Iran’s nuclear activities: the Russian President has urged the Iranian regime to cease its ‘irresponsible behavior’. Deputy Prime M...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and President Dmitry Medvedev have apparently agreed that a ‘stable euro‘ is key to assured financial growth. VTB Group chief executive Andrei Kostin has argued that the fragility of existing reser...
TODAY: Coverup regarding mine disaster? Protests in Samara against police; injured journalist to sue; Russia’s ecology record lambasted; trouble looming over Sochi Games; small parties given voice in Duma. Ukraine will not recognize G...
Simon Schuster has an interesting article in TIME about the Surkov-McFaul committee on human rights recently held in Vladimir. But some of the Russian activists who participated came away feeling let down, more by Surkov’s intransigence than...
The AFP is reporting that President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych has stated that his government will not recognize the independence of separatist territories in Georgia, South Ossetia and Abkhazia: “I have never recognized Abkhazia, South Os...
You know what’s really annoying? When you want to arrest some protesters but then the courts get in the way and you actually have to go through the trouble of inventing some charges against them. It’s much easier just to sk...
Dmitri Trenin has a piece in the Moscow Times today taking a look at the motivations behind the recent shift in Russian foreign policy to warm up to Europe and the United States – and of course, it’s the economy, stupid. Pressure is be...
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