Well, at least this one time Prime Minister Vladimir Putin followed the leader, President Dmitry Medvedev. It’s usually the other way around. Photo Credit: Russian President Dmitry Medvedev (L) and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin sit at ...
Oil has reached the $80 a barrel mark today, the first trading day of 2010, as talk of a possible Russia-Belarus oil dispute hits the media. Russia has apparently ceased oil supplies to Belarussian refineries, as the Lukashenko regime refuse...
‘To forecast the future of the Russian economy, one must make a guess at its progress toward becoming a nation under law’: the Wall Street Journal on investment risks in Russia. Apparently Russia’s manufacturing contraction...
TODAY: New Year’s opposition rally ends in detainment, greeted with international censure; sad new year for vodka drinkers as prices rise. Yushchenko uses presence of Russian fleet as tool against rival Tymoshenko; the conundrum of tea...
Though not directly related to Russia, this opinion article by Rami G. Khouri published in The Daily Star struck me as intelligent and thoughtful. Whenever it seems as though Russia is beyond Western understanding, we can always take a look ...
Below is a cut of RA’s interview with Al-Jazeera on Kazakhstan: Speaking to Al Jazeera, Robert Amsterdam, an international human rights lawyer, said: “Kazakhstan violates the very prescriptions the OSCE believes it needs to deliver to ...
Just a few days ago in Russia, a census of the population of the Amur tiger began in the Far East. The monitoring of the quantity of the animals will go on until the end of February, and towards the middle of March of the year 2010, scientists and...
Blogging over at Steve LeVine’s Oil and Glory, Sasha Meyer has an interesting article about the 1989 revolutions which never caught on in Central Asia, drawing interesting comparisons with Gabon and Egypt. A huge factor depends on what...
In his shoes, wouldn’t you also be feeling pretty happy? In a year that killed Stanislav Markelov, Natalia Estemirova, Sergei Magnitsky, and kept Khodorkovsky on the show trial block, Putin could still celebrate Russia’s first (s...
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