‘Tis the question. At least both the FSB and the Chechens appear to want to agree that the metro bombings were inspired as an act of revenge, though revenge for what exactly is less clear. From RFE/RL’s profile of Doku Umarov: In...
President Dmitry Medvedev’s initial reaction to the Moscow Metro bombings was sober and circumspect, while Vladimir Putin’s suggestive promise of bloody retribution was a much bigger hit with the public. In order to catch up with...
Russian oil producer Lukoil is planning to pour $480 million of investment into Uzbek natural-gas projects to profit from higher international prices. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin will pay visits to Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and Boli...
In spite of this week’s bombings, Russian stocks have climbed ‘more than every major market this week‘. Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin is urging his fellow Commonwealth of Independent States members to step up trade and mut...
TODAY: Human rights veteran attacked; protesters detained in Moscow and Vladivostok; 3,000 gather to remember those killed in Monday’s Moscow attacks for which Chechen rebel leader claims responsibility; United Russia’s clean water pro...
From 1 July of the year 2010 subdivisions of moral-psychological provision will begin to work in the system of the MVD to foster patriotism and intolerance towards corruption in policemen, to form in the guardians of order a complex of civic, mora...
There is a very interesting op/ed by three academics in the New York Times, which takes a look at the nature of Chechnya’s black widows, and seeks to explain the three-year pause in attacks between 2004 and 2007. The trajectory of Chechnya&#...
I agree with Ryzhkov’s comment that now would be a great time for Medvedev to show some control over the FSB, and take advantage of the opportunity presented by these terrible attacks to do something meaningful and unexpected. From the...
I don’t usually re-blog comments, but quite a remarkable one was left by user “Jack Johnson”, who I hope is different from the surfer-singer-songwriter (that would make me sad). You have become so blinded by your rage against Put...
Currently, only Rosneft and Gazprom have permission to explore and develop oil and gas resources off the coast of Russia, and the Natural Resources and Environment Ministry are now proposing to change the rules to allow access for non-state-run Ru...
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