After sixteen years as the President of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko has had one hell of a run, even earning the oft-cited title as “Europe’s Last Dictator” (though the Europeans shouldn’t sell themselves so short … ...
Dmitry Medvedev offers a rather gloomy prognosis for BP; the President has suggested the company could buckle under the pressure of the Deepwater spill and go under. He is not alone; the Telegraph wonders if the company should brace it...
The Moscow Times reports on what some of Russia’s richest business people think about inheritance. Central Bank Chairman Sergei Ignatyev is apparently confident that the ruble and the economy should make it through the eurozone crisis ...
TODAY: Journalist’s children taken over Avtovaz article; prison visit for US and Russia delegates; Amnesty International recommends ICC for Russia. Lavrov rebuffs Iran criticisms; British Council refuses to take part in Nashi youth cam...
Former President of the Czech Republic, Vaclav Havel, issues an op/ed on the disturbingly long string of high-profile murder victims in Russia, including Eduard Chuvashov, Stanislav Markelov, Natalya Estemirova, Maksharip Aushev, and Ivan Khutorsk...
It shouldn’t come as an enormous surprise that an editorial in today’s Wall Street Journal is slamming President Barack Obama’s reset policy with Russia, nor is the attack entirely undeserved: When the Obama Administration last w...
Blogging at the New York Review of Books, Timothy Snyder has a very interesting piece on the tectonic shift taking place in Ukraine ever since the government of Viktor Yanukovych took over, including a return to past tactics of intimidation by the...
The Moscow city government has denied that Zorlu Enerji Elektrik Uretim has completed a gas-fired power plant before its deadline as the Turkish energy producer claimed. Why is shipping company Sovkomflot ploughing through the Arctic to tran...
The head of the EU delegation to Russia has, according to Reuters, stated that Russia could become a member of the WTO within a year. The Moscow Times reports on Anatoly Chubais’ pitching skills. The economic recovery has seen Vi...
TODAY: Amnesty disappointed in Medvedev’s human rights stance; EU questions Russia over Magnitksy; detention rules to be changed for ill suspects? Crack down on bribe booty. Russia-Iran spat escalates over Kremlin’s sanctio...
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