A friend of mine in Barcelona has forwarded an interesting article published in today’s El País about the upcoming trial of Roberto Flórez García, an alleged double agent of the CNI (the Spanish CIA) who is accused of working for the FSB and...
In almost any other country in the world, it would be a scandalous outrage and national obsession. In Venezuela, where the speed of absurdist political theater zips along a such a fast pace – from war with Colombia to an attack on golf...
Lilia Shevtsova has a new piece published in Foreign Policy, examining why Western policymakers and intellectuals have suddenly decided to go soft and play along with Russian authoritarianism under Vladimir Putin: Western intellectuals are even mo...
This video and story below from science blogger Eric Michael Johnson is pretty cool, even if this kind of saccharine nostalgia for the war is waaay overdone, and not an entirely resolved aspect of the Russian psyche. However, something miraculous ...
Belarus has sent a delegation to Moscow for talks to try to end the oil tariff dispute. Reuters considers Russia’s harsh stance as a possible attempt to prompt negotiations on other tricky issues, such as the selling of Belarussian ass...
Russia is drawing up a list of banks to help the country launch its first international bond since the default, ‘in what promises to be one of the most high-profile emerging market debt deals of the year’. According to the Telegr...
TODAY: Bomb threat forces train evacuation; is it really possible to ‘uncorrupt’ the police?; analysis of new crackdown on traffic-blocking protests; survey says Uzbeks main victims of race hate crimes. Putin-Medvedev TV satire s...
It is customary for the head of the Russian FSB to give a year-end press conference on the agency’s successes in fighting enemies of the state. The fact that they skipped it this year might mean that 1) 2009 was a very bad year for the...
Not quite sure yet if this is funny or sad. From the Financial Times: Vasyl Humeniuk, a veteran small-town Ukrainian politician, has changed his name in an attempt to capitalise on the crisis-hit country’s widespread political disillus...
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