A suspected terrorist attack occurred in Russia this weekend, as a homemade explosive device caused a train to derail, killing about 25 and injuring scores of other. It has been many years since such a high profile, reprehensible terror inci...
In most modern industrialized countries there is a shortlist of newspapers that, according to general consensus, belong in a top tier of journalistic excellence. In France until recently I would have placed both Le Monde and Le Figaro in the short...
As many of you know, I am quite fascinated by Latin America’s sudden “brotherhood” with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Here a Washington Post editorial really hits home the fact that the Lula Administration really m...
The Wall Street Journal is running an article today on the efforts by Moscow to advance the Nord Stream and South Stream pipelines against the U.S. and Brussels-backed option to get the Nabucco built. While the Obama Administration has been ...
Perhaps expecting some respite from weeks of having his public image battered both in media and in the polls, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin arrived to France this week to do some business for Gazprom (roping in EDF for 10% of South Stream)...
Russia’s Energy Ministry has unveiled its $2 trillion investment plan to develop the sector through to 2030, focusing on raised oil production and a 33% increase in gas output. The plan also predicts that state influence in the oil and...
‘After Brazil imposed a tax on capital inflows a month ago, Russia is now the BRIC country most exposed to foreign capital, and officials have said they are considering “soft” measures to stem inflows.‘ Russia has set...
TODAY: Police force under fire as new story of police violence emerges; government-sponsored TV ‘hampering democracy’, Belykh running Kirov, law permits bullying of NGOs, Samizdat listed as ‘extremist’, blogger sentenced to...
Right on the heels of an important feature published in the New York Times Magazine, the largest daily newspaper of France, Le Monde, has made the Khodorkovsky trial a front page headline, and additionally included an editorial on France-Russia re...
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