Below, the much discussed and quite funny leaked video displaying the woefully low attendance in the Duma, and several representatives running around from seat to seat pressing the vote buttons. The cleverness of REN TV gives me hope that Ru...
And I’ll bet you would never guess who: “We do not like to see our neighbor supporting those who have shown animosity to us for 30 years. (….) If I was in the place of Russian officials, I would adopt a more careful stance....
New kompromat clips against opposition politicians and public figures, often depicting particularly sordid situations, have become all the rage on the Russian internet in recent months. The politician Ilya Yashin, who has been lured into the honey...
Bloomberg reports on how the fate of oil town Slantsy rests in the hands of billionaire Viktor Vekselberg, as President Medvedev insists that the wealthy invest in towns in industrial decline. A feature on RFE/RL looks at oil exploration in ...
Russian stocks have taken their biggest beating since October as the euro zone crisis spreads. President Medvedev is hard selling his idea for a Russian equivalent of Silicon Valley, wooing US venture funds with the idea that they would face...
TODAY: Opposition leaders petition the President; journalists fear for freedom of press; Lake Baikal paper mill angers locals; monument to Sakharov; Khodorkovsky on corruption. Russia concerned about US Patriot deployment; Ukraine changes na...
Over the past two months, Thailand’s Abhisit regime has opened fire with live ammunition on the Red Shirt pro-democracy demonstration in Bangkok, killing at least 88 of its own citizens and injuring more than 1,800, including foreign journal...
STATEMENT FROM DR THAKSIN SHINAWATRA “In 1976, university students held a pro-democracy demonstration in Bangkok. The junta in Thailand silenced them in a brutal crackdown. Dozens of university students were killed, hundreds were injured and...
Below is my statement circulated to media in response to the announcement that the government of Thailand had issued a warrant for the former Prime Minister. LONDON, May 25, 8.00 AM (BST): Thailand’s Criminal Court a short time ago issued a ...
Oil prices have fallen to below $70 a barrel, with markets spooked by the swelling debt crisis in Europe. Iran is, according to the New York Times, clinging to the Turkey-Brazil fuel swap plan. Turkmenistan will reportedly commence building ...
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