Nikolai Zobin in today’s Moscow Times laments that President Medvedev persistently highlights the level of corruption in Russia, whilst, by all accounts, the problem of graft has increased during his Presidency. (See yesterday’s ‘...
Russia and Austria have agreed to conclude talks over the South Stream pipeline as quickly as possible. The deal would, this report says, exclude Ukraine from the supply route, and will, in Putin’s words, quoted by the Other Russia, help to ...
The ruble hit an 11-month high yesterday, just after warnings against bets that the currency would continue to mount. The government has apparently decided to abandon some of its more ambitious pre-crisis goals for the 2012 economy, admitting that...
TODAY: Medvedev to give state of the nation address, modernization presumed to be key theme; opposition members laud ousting of Governor Rossel; Moscow Mayor to sue opposition politician Vladimir Zhirinovsky over corruption claims. Lavrov intervie...
Dmitri Trenin, Director of the Carnegie Moscow Center, dissects Russia’s foreign policy in the November/December issue of Foreign Affairs in an article entitled, “Russia Reborn.” Following is the passage I think resonates the mos...
Paul Goble’s post from a few days ago remains the most thorough roundup I’ve come across so far of the developing situation concerning the eviction of the Moscow Helsinki Group and the Moscow branch of For Human Rights. The LA Times is...
Reprinted from Robert Amsterdam’s latest in the Huffington Post: The effusive praise President Barack Obama has for former Singaporean Prime Minister and now Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew is another gesture that has led many to wonder where t...
Translated from a Russian stock market report in yesterday’s Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung: Analysts from the investment bank Troika Dialog therefore consider the increasing strength of the American economy as a threat to above-average deve...
From Foreign Policy’s recent special about the fall of the Berlin Wall, a neat little 4-point piece debunking some of the interpretations of why it collapsed: Here’s a reality check on the most persistent myths: No. 1: It was Ronald Re...
Today has not been a good day for the respectability of Russia’s organizations. Firstly we have the weekend’s police corruption You Tube video, whose revelations about alleged case fabrications and all manner of other disho...
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