For some reason or another, Russia is feeling very insecure these days, and the #3 silovik in the government, Nikolai Patrushev, is pushing a new military doctrine governing the deployment of nuclear weapons … he thinks it should be looser f...
The other day the Financial Times had a good editorial on Vladimir Putin’s visit to China to sign a plethora of business and energy deals, and naturally, the holy grail of all such diplomacy: becoming a bigger supplier of natural gas t...
According to ITAR-TASS, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has commented that Russia does not object to selling energy resources using domestic currencies. How done is the Russia-China gas deal? wonders the the FT. Gazprom will buy 500 mill...
Avtovaz is on the brink of bankruptcy, Sergei Stepashin, the head of State Audit Chamber has informed Reuters. Russia’s government has stepped up the pressure on Renault to assist its embattled partner to stay afloat. According t...
TODAY: Clinton turns attention to civil society and gives speech tackling human rights abuses; Walt Whitman statue unveiled; Putin advises against intimidating Iran; opposition politicians stage Duma walk out. Memorial to appeal. Putin...
Here’s an entertaining scene from Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s visit to Russia from Tom Lasseter of McClatchey. I suppose having planted questions like the Putin telethon is a step up from the Obama visit, which was banne...
Not long ago, I published an article on this blog about Timur Idalov, a Chechen law student who had the bad luck to get into a car accident with the wrong person, and now sits in jail despite the overwhelming clarity of his innocence. Если Вы хоти...
Good analysis from Douglas Birch of the Associated Press: So Moscow has walked a tightrope: joining Iran in scolding the West for its alleged imperial ambitions and blocking sanctions on the one hand, while warning Tehran it will not tolerate a nu...
Yesterday I blogged that neither Vladislav Surkov nor Michael McFaul are reading from the same script as they were a few years ago. Here’s a good example how, buried in an FT story on the Iran sanctions doublespeak: This fear seemed to...
Here goes a subtitled video montage of the one of the first exhibitions of all the art produced as part of a contest of student artists visiting the second trial of Mikhail Khodorkovsky.
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