The Financial Times has cool article about the challenges of changing time zones, including some info on Dmitry Medvedev’s proposal, which seeks to improve business and logistics of the far East. The economic advantages of convenient tempora...
Vladimir Ryzhkov’s column in the Moscow Times points to a very bad year in terms of human rights and corruption in Russia. It’s really quite a staggering list. Throughout the year, Medvedev was incapable of managing the country&#...
Grigory Pasko is the Russia correspondent for this blog, and a one-time political prisoner following an article published in the Japanese press about the Russian Navy illegally dumping nuclear waste in the Sea of Japan in 1993. Several years...
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon appealed for world powers to secure a legally binding climate deal next year following the failure of the Copenhagen summit. Gennady Timchenko, an acquaintance of Vladimir Putin, has received government permission ...
S&P has revised its negative outlook on Russia: ‘It’s a good sign, a Christmas present.‘ Russia and Egypt could be on the verge of signing a long-term wheat import agreement. Russia’s London ambassador, Yury...
TODAY: Communist Party asks Russia to hold the criticism on Stalin’s birthday, 30% of Russians would like a similar leader today, says VTsIOM; Moscow Mayor takes on the snow; Russia to revise its stance on Protocol 14? UN wants more Russian ...
The Public Chamber of Tomsk Oblast is proposing for broad discussion a project under the name of «Code of the Tomich» [A “Tomich” is an inhabitant of Tomsk in Russian–Trans.] You can acquaint yourself with the text of the code on...
Most readers of this site probably caught that news over the weekend that the Georgian government demolished a 150-foot high Soviet era memorial honoring soldiers who served in the Great Patriotic War. Not only did they demolish it to clear ...
How cool is Putin? Not only has the guy been running Russia for more than a decade and probably into the foreseeable future, he also shoots tigers, goes topless horseback riding, is rumored to have a gorgeous gymnast girlfriend, is best frie...
The author and project leader of ArcticNet, Michael Byers, has an optimistic piece published in the Globe and Mail today arguing for a renewed effort of cooperation between the Canadian and Russian governments on mutual recognition of arctic sover...
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