Writing in Foreign Affairs, David C. Engerman argues that more resources need to be dedicated to developing strong academic programs in Middle East Studies, as they once were for Sovietology. The interesting aspect of the article for this au...
Leaked documents show that world leaders will be asked to sign an agreement that ‘sidelines the UN’s role in all future climate change negotiations‘ and abandons the Kyoto protocol, according to The Guardian, who says that the Co...
Car sales in Russia fell 46% last month, year-on-year. Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin says that the privatization of state-owned companies will benefit the companies themselves, not the state budget: ‘This is not a sale of stakes, with...
TODAY: Perm death toll rises, ministers seek to blame officials; Putin on Magnitsky: ‘the lawyer’; Jehovah’s Witnesses halted; pensioners demonstrate over axing of cheap travel; rail bombing unearths broad issues; art and identit...
There’s a slightly worrying report today in the Wall Street Journal of Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin saying that Russia is a “weak link” in global capital markets while discussing the country’s plans to issue its first Eur...
Cloud seeding, the practice of dousing the clouds with chemicals from fighter jets to change the weather, really seems to be in vogue. I remember first hearing about it during the Beijing Olympics, as the authorities sought to ensure a few w...
Coming ahead of Human Rights Day, Amnesty International has a press release demanding the Russian government to put a stop to the persecution of activitists over the number of months, referring to Alexei Sokolov, Oleg Orlov, and many others: On 31...
“The support of the press is imperative to the nature-protection agencies,” said Alexander Malyshevsky, Chairman of the Public Council Under the Federal Service for Oversight in the Sphere of Nature Use, quoted by lenizdat.ru during a ...
I don’t usually do back to back links to the same sources, but this news is just too big (see the original source in Russian here). From Yevgeny Bendersky blogging at RCW: Newly appointed Chief of Staff of the Russian Land Forces, Lieu...
Following the train bombing, Vladimir Putin did the tough guy thing again, and said he would “break the spine” of the terrorists behind the attack. Blogging over at RCW, Greg Scoblete compiles some of his other favorite Putinisms...
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