Putin has warned government officials against allowing construction costs to escalate on large infrastructure projects and has threatened to dismiss those responsible for allowing increases to occur. Deputy Regional Development Minister Serg...
TODAY: Journalist censored for critique of over-centralization; Council of Europe to assess human rights in Russia; a look at North Koreans seeking asylum. Analysis of START slow down; Russian Defense Minister in Vietnam. Smuggling-cor...
Head of the Investigative Committee of Russia, Alexander Bastrykin, recently came up with the brilliant idea of fingerprinting and DNA registering the entire population of the country, or at least that’s what is stated in his report the coll...
Fareed Zakaria does a good job of holding back on this short report of yet another Marlboro man photo shoot of Vladimir Putin doing all that tough guy stuff out in Siberia. Really? Do we still need this?
Ukraine’s newly-appointed government is in the process of updating its gas agreement with Russia, seeking lower prices in exchange for allowing Russia access to its energy infrastructure. The Russian Orthodox Church has asked the Kreml...
In a meeting with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Vladimir Putin commented on the collapse of trade between Russia and the US, and asked that restrictions preventing Russia from obtaining ‘normal trade relations‘ status be remov...
TODAY: Protests over the weekend disappoint opposition despite large numbers; Kaliningrad sees 5,000-strong crowd brandish tangerines; United Russia to grant amnesty to 300,000, Gryzlov foresees tandem rule; new opposition to Sochi as workers̵...
In response to the news that President Dmitry Medvedev may be pursuing the formation of a new political party to support his modernization agenda, Vladimir Frolov has a new piece arguing that he needs a different kind of party, of the “tea&#...
Over the years, Russia’s safety record on fires and other accidents has significantly worsened, highlighted more recently by the nightclub fire in Perm which prompted widespread criticism and anger over government standards and bureaucratic ...
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