TODAY: Putin protest achieves results; Medvedev on election fraud; academic publishing rules to come into force; CIS in a mess; court case brought against human rights activist Orlov; AIDS epidemic, Stalin PR, and a bizarre gift for Arnold Schwarz...
From eight o’clock in the morning I was looking in the window: from it, like in the palm of your hand, you can see school № 1965, which on October 11th was transformed into a polling station. Right until evening I did not uncover a single bu...
Yesterday we mentioned a New York Times piece about the lack of mass outrage regarding the falsification of election results on October 11. All in all, there seems to be a general feeling that the outcry about vote-rigging has turned out to ...
Russia has many a renowned global export – but none has affirmed its presence quite so forcefully across the globe as the Kalashnikov, assault rifle par excellence. The Independent ran a brief story on the weekend about Anatoly Isaikin...
Democracy would be calamitous for Russia: this is the message we are hearing today from chief Kremlin ideologue Vladislav Surkov, via Reuters. Certainly, we can concur, there’s nothing like democracy to wreck a highly tuned and iron wr...
The head of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization says the country expects Russia’s government and Atomstroyexport ‘to honor their commitments to launch the Bushehr nuclear power plant … on time‘. In turn, Russia...
The first Russian-assembled Opel car, the result of a joint venture between General Motors and the Avtotor plant, has been completed. RusAl has reported its 2008 losses, saying that it sustained a $5.98 billion hit due to the financial crisi...
TODAY: Modernization faces institutional problems; Stalin memorial opposed by rights activists; terrorist death compensation to be brought in line with Europe; Lavrov in India; polygamy, divorce, Nashi, mushrooms. The ‘fizzling‘ outcom...
Over the past month I have been deeply engaged in conversations surrounding the book Civic War and the Corruption of the Citizen, authored by the brilliant Peter Alexander Meyers, a political theorist and professor at the Sorbonne in Paris as well...
Today Sean’s Russia Blog has an article on the murder of a United Russia deputy named Grigory Nosikov, commenting that the Western media has repeatedly ignored and/or downplayed violent deaths of members of government. Were Nosikov a j...
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