Even though many observers think that United Russia’s poor performance in the elections was arranged on purpose, here Miriam Elder proposes we consider the news at face value: that Vladimir Putin, though personally still popular, may b...
Russia will not contemplate merging its South Stream pipeline with the European Nabucco pipeline, as South Stream is ‘more competitive‘ than Nabucco, according to Energy Minister Sergei Shmatko. Meanwhile Nord Stream has secured ...
The ruble is expected to strengthen between 18-20% over the next three years, which Deputy Economy Minister Andrei Klepach fears may have a deleterious effect on the economy. The head of a U.S. anti-bribery group has told Reuters that extort...
TODAY: Opposition parties make a dent in United Russia predominance at elections?; cascade of disapproval from Western envoys falls on Imedi media after TV hoax; Medvedev continues shake-up in Caucasus; Lukoil using the blogosphere to persuade pub...
I was very intrigued by this recent post over on the Volokh Conspiracy discussing an article by Hadi Ghaemi and Aaron Rhodes of the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. Though I am most often blogging about Russia, Europe, and ev...
A real news report on the fake news report. It’s hard to see the logic behind this very bad idea. Watch the intro which preceded the report here, as well as some good commentary.
If the Russian police are doing something very ham-fistedly and very doggedly, that means another agency is looming behind their back. And we can guess just which one. No doubt many of us from the very beginning assumed that the story with the sei...
Owen Matthews at Newsweek has been writing some hard-hitting stuff on Russia lately – namely the take down of Medvedevian faux modernization in that recent cover story. In this latest piece, Matthews conjures the irresistible James Bon...
Kim Zigfield (also known as La Russophobe) has a new blog post about Mikhail Khodorkovsky’s Nezavisimaya Gazeta article and the Yukos ECHR case as being two fronts of a legal battle against Putinism, published on PajamasMedia: Make no mistak...
Joshua Foust, who usually blogs at Registan.net, has a book review (posted a few days back) of former GRU General Boris Volodarsky’s history of Russia’s use of poisons for assassinations published at Oil and the Glory. And what a poiso...
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