I am getting really sick of those guys over at The Power Vertical. Every time I have a good idea for a blog post, they go out there and do it first (and then do it better than I can). Take for example this staged “walk out”...
Kafkaesque. The former Russian oil tycoon, who stood up to Putin, is back before his judges. Here is the story. [The following is a translation of an article published in the French publication Le Point.] Le Point, October 15, 2009 Accused Khodork...
Everybody has probably already heard about the first exercises of the CSTO rapid reaction force in Kazakhstan today, where President Dmitry Medvedev wanted to make sure he was the most well dressed autocrat to show up to the party. I do ofte...
A very caustic article by Con Coughlin in the Telegraph argues that Russia cannot be trusted as an ally, i.e. – Washington is wasting its time believing that cooperation on Iran is coming. Not that he has any strong feelings about the ...
The Moscow Times reports that TNK-BP intends to invest $1.3 billion in upgrading refineries in Russia and Ukraine over the next five years. Transneft has announced that second-quarter net income advanced 71% from the same period last year.&n...
According to the FT, Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan have abandoned their attempt to join the World Trade Organization as a single customs union, after WTO members made clear the unprecedented suggestion would elongate the process by some years.&nb...
TODAY: Medvedev offers little support to opposition on Duma walkout; speculation mounts – was the protest rigged as well as the elections?; Russia faces UN human rights council; international criticism of crack-down on Arkhangelsk historian ...
Marina Galperina at RUSSIA! has dug up quite a few examples of the worst kind of art a cult of personality can produce. Very entertaining stuff. “Shepard Fairey’s own Putin”
This latest dispatch from CNN’s Matthew Chance on Russia’s human rights problem is very well done in that there is no specific news hook beyond the Politkvoskaya murder anniversary of last week, no fresh bodies slain in Moscow or Chech...
A new book has been published about a very interesting period in continental history – Russia’s confrontation with Napoleon in 1812, just one of the many conflicts with Western Europe over the past few centuries which continues to have...
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