TODAY: Rasmussen says NATO will never attack Russia; new high-speed train links Moscow and St Petersburg; Georgia demolishes Soviet memorial; Gordon Brown welcomes investigation into Magnitsky’s death; Medvedev and Obama to discuss treaty in...
Yevgeny Kiselyov has an interesting take on Yegor Gaidar’s legacy in the Moscow Times: There has never been a case in Russian history where economic, political or social reforms have been carried out from the bottom-up. Reforms in Russia hav...
President Dmitry Medvedev flies to Copenhagen today to attend the United Nations Climate Change Conference. He says a differentiated approach to the formation of obligations on greenhouse gas emissions should be used for developed and develo...
Deutsche Bank has hired Ilya Yuzhanov, a former Russian anti-monopoly minister, as managing director for the former Soviet Union. Despite IMF warnings to curb spending, the Federal Treasury has not yet spent its budget allocation for the yea...
TODAY: EU ceremony awards Memorial with human rights prize; Medvedev granted right to send troops abroad; less siloviki in the Kremlin post-Putin; NATO visit yields a cool response from Medvedev on Afghanistan; START treaty won’t be signed t...
I am not sure what value I can add to the passing of the former PM and economic architect of the Russian Federation, Yegor Gaidar, to everything else that is being published today. I just know that I shouldn’t let it go by unmentioned....
I know that we try to put all our Venezuela news over on the other blog these days unless it has something to do with Russia, this is still some pretty dramatic news from Robert Amsterdam’s case down there, holding down the front pages of th...
The New York Post is running a sensationalist piece today about the gymnast Alina Kabaeva giving birth to a son, which may or may not have something to do with the unconfirmed speculation of involvement with Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. We’...
Uffe Ellemann-Jensen, a former foreign minister of Denmark, has a great article on the politics behind Nord Stream in the Moscow Times, suggesting that in any other country, Gerhard Schröder would be prosecuted for corruption for taking a Gazprom ...
An enjoyable piece from Paul Goble today, drawing on the analysis of Konstantin Remchukov published in NG. Drawing on the works of Joseph Schumpeter, Remchukov points out both that entrepreneurs play a key role in societal transformations and that...
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