‘[N]o amount of image building will ever hide the fact that Russia has not yet mastered the art of designing a decent internal-combustion engine, a 19th-century technology,‘ notes Vladimir Frolov, arguing for the insourcing of technolo...
TODAY: Perm mourns 112 victims of nightclub fire; START treaty expires with no replacement; salary caps for governors?; racial killings see first drop in seven years; policeman suicide; tabloid hacked; is Russia behind climate change email theft? ...
Who are some of Russia’s greatest thinkers? Whomever they may be, they got left off a long list by the magazine Foreign Policy. Blogger poemless has a good long post running down some of the potential names from the Russian brain...
The Mendeleyev Report has a piece looking at Vladimir Putin’s recent personal attack against Mikhail Khodorkovsky: At times testy, at times tired, and at times funny, Mr Putin held court and you can bet that many a Russian tuned in. How many...
According to preliminary data, 110 people died because of the fire in the nightclub in Perm. Over 100 are considered wounded and victims. Если Вы хотите прочитать оригинал данной статьи на русском языке, нажмите сюда. In all, there were 233 people...
Whomever was in charge of telling me that Yevgeny Chichvarkin’s nickname was the “million-dollar mullet” is fired. That is just too good. Russia Profile has a very good article this week on his case, which is very com...
Alan Philps has a very good article today in the National: A clear cause for the cooling of relations between Moscow and Tehran is the Iranian rejection of a Russian-supported proposal under which Iran would send low-enriched uranium to Russia and...
A very interesting perspective from Judy Dempsey in the New York Times on the importance of Poland’s rapproachement with Germany, and how this would play into the European Union’s relations with Russia. There is growing support b...
Streetwise Professor hits one out of the park on the Putin murder accusation: Completely ignoring the actual crimes for which Khordokovsky has been convicted and charged, Putin asserted that Khodorkovsky was guilty of five murders because th...
I have been getting a number of calls and emails about Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s impromptu attack against Mikhail Khodorkovsky during the televised call-in show this week, and there was one thing remarkably different from back ...
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