Writing at Time Magazine, Trita Parsi argues that Iranian politics have come to represent Churchill’s view of Russia. I object: since when has Russia ceased to be an enigma-wrapper mystery and bulldogs under the carpet? Iran is t...
Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi says construction of a Russia-China oil pipeline – part of the East Siberia-Pacific pipeline – will be finished by the end of the year, and will have the capacity to pump 1.6 million barrels of crud...
Read a profile piece on Alexander Lebedev, the billionaire and entrepreneur currently in the final stages of acquiring British newspaper The Independent: ‘Is he the Kremlin’s Trojan horse or is he driven, as he says, by “civic re...
TODAY: Medvedev abolishes science and education agencies; holiday protests; Major Alexei Dymovsky released from custody; Russians favour United Russia; FSS confirms death of North Caucasus militant; Yanukovych promises to improve relations with Ru...
At the same time as the two presidential couples – the French and the Russian – were attending an exhibition in the Louvre with the pompous name «Rus’ the holy», another exhibition was opening in a private gallery not too far fro...
Say what you will about Europe’s last dictator Alexander Lukashenko, the guy is a smart political operator. From Pavol Demeš on RealClearWorld: Lukashenko is at his chess game again – and winning. Top Western officials are writing him ...
The cover story on this week’s International Edition of Newsweek features Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, with the unflattering headline “Moscow’s Phony Liberal.” I had already Owen Matthews and Anna Nemtsova’...
From the Financial Times on the Yukos trial at the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in Strasbourg: “It is now entirely in the hands of the court. There will be no further pleadings,” said Piers Gardner, lawyer for the plaintiffs, ...
Today is the 57th anniversary of the death of Josef Stalin, and the Communists and other nationalists are lining up to lay flowers at his grave on the Kremlin wall and bandy about other paraphernalia to sing his praises. Naturally, many of t...
So everybody is talking about this $1 million challenge posted by Russian Ambassador Dmitry Rogozin on his Twitter for someone to “prove that NATO is not pursuing military planning against Russia.” Don’t bother trying to wi...
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