Looks like we’re not done having fun with this one yet. From the Associated Press: Putin did not technically rap — but he did deliver his speech clutching a mike to the backdrop of a hip hop groove. He clapped his hands while lis...
The following is a press release being sent around by Hermitage Capital Management with regard to the death last night of Sergei Magnitsky. The link to the 40-page complaint by Magnitsky to Chief Prosecutor Yuri Chaika detailing the urgent c...
I am not sure how much longer the Browder film will be available online, given that one individual featured in it has died (I have seen it pulled from some sites). Anyways, if you haven’t seen it yet, today is the day if you would like...
This is horrible, horrible news, especially considering the circumstances behind the arrest of Sergei Magnitsky, a lawyer involved in the William Browder and Hermitage Capital affair (this saga of state corruption is best told in a ten minute film...
Russia’s Energy Minister and the EU Energy Commissioner have signed a memorandum establishing an early warning mechanism to anticipate potential gas cuts and allow time to find solutions to problems before deliveries are physically affected....
Since the beginning of the month, Russia’s central bank has spent over $5 billion on interventions aimed at slowing the ruble’s gain. Oleg Deripaska has dismissed Michael Cherney’s RusAl stake claim, saying it ‘resembles [&...
TODAY: Medvedev speaks in Singapore, elections committee to be formed under the president?; Abkhazia pledges dialing allegiance to Russia; Moscow real estate and low-rise government housing; kiosk theft, Nabokov. Soundbites from Dmitry Medvedev...
As many readers are aware, the Russian government has been on a recent censorship tear, including talk of banning off-color and proudly offensive animated TV imports such as The Simpsons, Family Guy, and South Park (oddly, Venezuela’s Hugo C...
From time to time, La Russophobe forwards us links to what they are publishing. This posting on subnational authoritarianism in particular is quite interesting. Writing in the Russian Analytical Digest, Vladimir Gelman argues that the ...
In what are sure to be the most bizarre and cringe-worthy videos of the week, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin showed up as the featured guest on a popular hip hop TV show in Russia. According to the AFP, Putin commented “And breakdance i...
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