Following the publishing of President Dmitry Medvedev’s extended liberal thought piece, which at least one commentator said may as well have been penned by Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the Kremlin convened a conference yesterday in Yaroslavl entitl...
Ria-Novosti reports that GDF Suez will, by the end of October, become a shareholder in the company building the Nord Stream gas pipeline under the Baltic Sea, Gazprom’s deputy CEO has announced. Norway’s StatoilHydro is looking f...
TODAY: Medvedev defends the right to be critical; suggests US responsible for crisis. Washington concerns about arms deal with Venezuela. Poland bombarded by Georgian refugees; Russian-German diplomat problems. Spiraling yet unenergeti...
Over on trueslant.com, Joshua Kucera has an interesting travelogue-type report about a visit to Ulan-Ude in Buryatia, Russia, where he finds racial tolerance much greater than expected, but some strange social trends. He also finds one of Ru...
The French think tank IFRI has published a 22-page report on the Eastern Partnership initiative (EaP) and Georgia which finds that significant problems and obstacles exist for the establishment of a successful neighborhood policy. We still t...
There is something strange about Alexander Lebedev offering to give away shares to big business names such as Warren Buffett and Michael O’Leary. I understand the principle of having major equity partners who are experienced as being g...
Things are looking pretty bad for the Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko. Following Dmitry Medvedev’s direct attack on his candidacy, Russia has successfully made itself indispensable in this election … it seems they have lear...
In the Sunday Times of London, Mark Franchetti interviews Mikhail Khodorkovsky on his conditions in prison, the absurd second trial, and how he fills the endless days. The campaign against me was organised by the Kremlin. The first case, which got...
The New York Times has an interesting piece, complete with map, about Russia’s shrinking linguistic empire, as various former Soviet states make moves to restore native languages within officialdom. This kind of linguistic nationalism ...
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