In this piece from Michael Allen’s Democracy Digest, it’s hard to think what or who he left out … a real parade of names and ideas from the Kremlin critic community. The ruling elite’s “schizophrenic behavior” r...
For years I have enjoyed Mark Helprin’s novels – “Winter’s Tale” is specifically quite good. What many may not have known is that Helprin is a pretty prolific and uncompromising political opinion writer – ...
Just how low can the trust get between two countries? I just came across the image below from AP Photo by Dmitry Lovetsky which shows Russian protesters wearing Obama and Hillary masks, spraying flowers with poison – as they consider t...
Two interesting pieces of news coincide today from the sordid world of Russian energy politics. First, permissions to build the 403-meter “Gazscraper” tower in St. Petersburg were muscled through local government by Valentina Mat...
Yevgeny Zhovtis – the political prisoner of Kazakhstan Grigory Pasko, journalist During the time of my brief sojourn in Almaty, I met with many people – journalists, jurists, human rights advocates – and asked of them: what do th...
Brooklyn could soon have itself a new Russian billionaire patron, as Mikhail Prokhorov has reportedly made an offer to own the New Jersey Nets, helping real estate developer Bruce Ratner with a $700 million bond to move the team and build a new ar...
What on earth do you think we’ll hear from the Russians this year? A defensive and hostile discourse on the evils of the United States and the West, or a slightly more conciliatory tone about Russia’s long deserved global leaders...
Contrary to rumor, competitive politics do exist inside Russia’s government – but only among those already in power. In taking a look at the contradicting and competing statements about future plans for the 2012 elections from bo...
Reuters reports that the Russian government may sell part of its 75% stake in the country’s largest oil producer, Rosneft. Andrei Sharonov, a former deputy economy minister, has said that the government could sell up to 25% without any...
Bloomberg reports that GDP will apparently shrink 8.5% this year, but the government hopes to see a return to growth in 2010. The IMF says that Russia’s economy will enjoy a ‘fairly rapid recovery’ in the second half of the...
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