Personal circumstances of an “overwhelming force” was how leader of the Kaliningrad oppositioneers Konstantin Doroshok recently explained his exit from the «Solidarity» movement. Certain political scientists decoded this exit in their ...
Writing in the Moscow Times, Alexei Bayer doesn’t believe that the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Sochi are going to go very well, and not because the developers won’t be able to finish all the buildings and infrastructure. “...
Some of the family of the murdered former FSB agent Alexander Litvinenko have been having a very tough time in their temporarily adopted home of Italy, where police have raided and shut down their business, asylum papers blocked, and other harassm...
Blogging at the Power Vertical, Brian Whitmore takes a look at Russia’s pokazukha (fake) liberalization. It’s a bit ironic that Putin and his team, who clearly favor a Yury Andropov-style authoritarian modernization, are now being forc...
A feud between Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin and Rosneft Chairman (and deputy prime minister) Igor Sechin over tax breaks for oil companies could damage growth in oil output and jeopardize exports to Asia, says Bloomberg. Gazprom is seeking...
Is Russia planning to scrap the ruble? Igor Shuvalov suggests that a common currency with Belarus and Kazakhstan could be introduced instead. Finans magazine ranks Yelena Baturina, the CEO of Inteko and wife of Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhko...
TODAY: NATO optimistic on Russia’s warships; clergy department to oversee prisons; Putin accuses officials of misspending Olympic funds; Kovalyov interview; Zhukovsky protest; regional elections; Litvinenko’s father alleges persecution...
Click here to jump over to France24 to see a video clip of a panel discussion on Russia surrounding the summit between Nicolas Sarkozy and Dmitry Medvedev featuring Robert Amsterdam and others.
Writing in The Telegraph, Andrew Osborn quotes several sources who note the “sunny” and “cheerful” disposition of President Dmitry Medvedev, underscored by a lack of results (notably the fact that the lawyer for the YouTube...
A new biography of the great Polish journalist Ryszard Kapuscinski has been published, which several British media have misinterpreted as some sort of exposé of fictions in his reporting. In an interview with the author Artur Domoslawski on ...
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