President Medvedev proclaimed in his recent Der Spiegel interview that there is little difference between the rights record of Russia and that of its European counterparts: ‘Our values are the same as yours. I don’t see any major diffe...
The US is apparently willing to give Iran more time to decide whether it will accept the UN’s recent proposal on uranium enrichment abroad. Bad news for Gazprom – the company’s profits fell by 48% in the first six months of...
First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov has pledged not to fire workers from near-insolvent Avtovaz, but to create new subsidiaries employing up to 15,000 people. Auto sales declined by 51% in the first 10 months of 2009, compared with the...
TODAY: Youtube policeman faces slander investigation; Omsk students threatened with expulsion; Committee to Protect Journalists urge global attention to threats against media in Russia. Merkel thanks Gorbachev; Medvedev approves new military bill;...
“History does not repeat itself, but it does rhyme.” – Mark Twain David Satter, Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute and visiting scholar at SAIS, has done an amazing thing to mark the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin ...
Here’s a quick extract from President Medvedev’s interview with Der Spiegel, (the whole of which can be read here) where he discusses Putin’s eyebrow-raising comments about how power is allotted in Russia: SPIEGEL: Putin’s ...
The Wall Street Journal ran a piece the other day by Masha Geesen, adapted from her latest book, about the culture of mathematics during Soviet times and how it evolved into a post-Soviet brain drain, with the Poincaré Conjecture as the centerpiec...
Today and indeed for the past week the press has been awash with articles reflecting on the fall of the Berlin Wall, from the issue of who got the ball rolling, how Eastern Europe and Russia have fared post-Soviet collapse, the question of nostalg...
Here is the Youtube post by disillusioned police officer Alexei Dymovskiy urging the Prime Minister to address the issue of endemic corruption in law enforcement.
Apparently Oleg Deripaska does not hold the belief that bad publicity is better than no publicity. After Vedomosti published an article on October 26 claiming that the company had debts of just under $6 billion for last year, journalists at ...
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