The UK press have a reputation for baiting Russia somewhat – perhaps a reflection of less-than-healthy diplomatic relations in recent years. Today, the Telegraph has published a bizarre article by one James Corum, a specialist in milit...
[Though the following post has nothing to do with Russia, I had been receiving some questions so I am making this information available to those interested. –Thanks, RA] As announced in a press release dated 9 December 2009, my law firm, Ams...
Here Streetwise Professor recounts his fortunate opportunity to meet up with the Russian youth activist Oleg Kozlovsky during his speaking tour of the United States (Kozlovsky had been stranded in St. Louis by the snowstorms on the East Coast).&nb...
Gazprom has confirmed that it will delay the Shtokman gas field by three years to 2016 due to a slump in demand. Rosneft is boasting a 2.5% year increase in proven reserves. Britain points out that Iran’s plans to make higher-grade nuc...
Russia plans to put a 3 million-ton dent in its grain stockpile. Is Gazprombank planning to float on the London Stock Exchange? A senior Sberbank manager has been arrested on suspicion of laundering over $100 million from the company f...
TODAY: Putin scolds United Russia deputies over false promises; Lavrov fails to mount anti-NATO bid, Rasmussen suggests that Russia could help NATO in Afghanistan; Moscow to start up center to protect property rights; writers say they were hired b...
At the end of January, my editor James met up with Dr. Nina Khrushcheva at the New School in New York to shoot an exclusive interview on variety of topics in modern Russian politics. The quote which I have put in the title of this post is ju...
A fiction author of the most vivid imagination would have a tough time coming up with a story as satirical as the recent 10,000-strong protests in Kaliningrad followed by political theatrics of the state-approved opposition, as Speaker of the Fede...
What’s the deal with Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov’s sudden thirst for demolition, eviction, and intimidation? The neighbourhood of Rechnik, on the outskirts of Moscow, home to a number of houses varying in size and value, was subjec...
Aha! So there is method in yesterday’s Mironov madness. It appears the fantastic war of words between rival Kremlin supporters was designed explicitly to produce the headlines that it did – to draw attention away from the p...
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