TODAY: Russia ratifies European Human Rights Convention’s Protocol 14; Yanukovych leading Ukraine’s exit polls; Medvedev’s photograph sells for $1.7 million at charity auction; video cameras to monitor rail route; NATO likely to ...
Right around the same time that the world’s well-meaning politicians professed their concern for the environment at the Copenhagen conference, the Russian authorities launched their own official version of an environmental advocacy group, ev...
Megan Stack of the Los Angeles Times has an interesting interview with the likely winner of today’s elections in Ukraine, Viktor Yanukovich. You have said that you would keep Ukraine out of NATO, and also that you believe integration into th...
Writing on a Russia Profile experts panel, Stephen A. Blank predicts some tough times ahead for Dmitry Medvedev’s reform attempts in 2010. Thus as 2012 draws closer into view, we should expect more visible signs of a struggle, though hardly ...
Below is a translation of an interesting article by Marlena Mistrzak published in the Polish magazine Wprost Weekly, which takes a look at the proliferation of fancy soirees in Brussels hosted by representatives sent from Moscow, and the delicate ...
RFE/RL reports on the balancing act the new EU energy commissioner, Guenther Oettinger, will have to perform if he wishes to avoid alienating Russia, whilst upholding European interests. An energy summit underway in the Georgian Black Sea po...
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has told a poultry conference that if the US does not comply with Russian standards, another supplier will be found, though Russia will continue to accept US meat until January 19. Apparently Sberbank saw a reco...
TODAY: Overhaul of electoral legislation proposed; rights activists seek Markelov-Baburova memorial; Sochi Olympic construction allegedly impinging on citizens’ rights. Turnaround on Protocol 14? Damning judgment on social equality fro...
This evening our blog has been assailed by several hundred “Ugg Boots” spam comments which we assume are generated by some infamous Chinese auto-spammers. They are crashing through our filter and non-functional captcha, so I have...
Despite all the harrowing experiences of political risk and Russian government intervention from Yukos to Hermitage, investors keep coming back for more beatings. It’s not difficult to understand why: ever since awakening from th...
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