Viktor Shenderovich, the famous Russian satirist and creator of “Kukly” political puppet show, attended the literary award ceremony for the Khodorkovsky-Ulitskaya letters, and comments on this unique meeting of minds from such differen...
A third round of Russian-Belarusian talks on electricity transit to the Baltic states and the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad have supposedly resumed. Apparently Belarus has accused Russia of illegally levying export duties on crude oil deliv...
The IMF has predicted the steep appreciation of the ruble; just as the Central Bank is trying to put the brakes on its rapid gains. Russia’s development bank VEB and Libya’s sovereign fund have apparently bought the most shares i...
TODAY: Putin warns against reforms of political system; Medvedev defends election results; Yeltsin’s daughter taking on Putin in blogosphere? North Caucasus job creation strategy; Tatarstan’s veteran leader to step down when mand...
Just some odds and ends I have come across this week, united by a common theme. Vladimir Putin, upon hearing calls for officials to examine complaints on the Internet about vote rigging in the recent regional elections: “On the Internet 50 p...
We reported here yesterday that the youth movement leader Oleg Kozlovsky was being persecuted by the Russian FSB, and had had his passport renewal application withheld for spurious reasons (he had previously been forcibly conscripted to the army d...
Well we all know that the process currently unraveling in the Khamovnichesky Courthouse in Moscow against Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev is just the latest time-honored performance of a classic Russian show trial, the satirical cartoon be...
Earlier this week I had read a posting by Anders Åslund over on the Economists’ Forum blog at the FT which I had meant to get around to writing about. In this interesting piece, Åslund puts forward the familiar argument that Russia is ...
Writing in the Moscow Times, Nikolai Petrov comments on Alexander Khloponin’s new job as the presidential envoy to the North Caucasus, one of the worst jobs imaginable. So this is clearly one of the best and brightest in the Russian go...
Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov’s feeling on learning that Iran has rejected proposals to enrich its uranium abroad? ‘Regret‘ – which does not mesh well with Sergei Kiriyenko’s affirmation that ‘2010 is the year ...
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