TODAY: Putin orders infrastructure overhaul; blogger charged; Rogozin praises cooperation with NATO. Abkhazia warns Georgia over blockade; criminal charges for ‘negligent’ Ingushetia police; fire at rights organization HQ. Medved...
Here is the beginning of the latest excellent column by Philip Stephens in the Financial Times: The conventional story about Russia has been one of power reclaimed after the fall to chaos during the 1990s. Oil, gas and autocracy have restored it t...
Poor Joseph Stalin. Sure, he personally signed orders to kill hundreds of thousands, but why can’t the media leave the poor guy alone? Efforts in Russia to rejuvenate his image have been creative… We had the RussiaTod...
Registan.net has posted up a nine-page executive summary of a long report compiled by John Bumgarner of the U.S. Cyber Consequences Unit. Steve LeVine at Oil and Glory talked with and analyzed the results… which show that complic...
Bear with me through the off-color Angela Merkel jokes up to about minute 2:30 of this clip from The Colbert Report… “This dog is either asleep after a long day of commuting, or he spoke out against Vladimir Putin.” C...
Wow, it is really starting to feel like military Thursday. Here’s another story from Wired’s Danger Room reminding us that why Washington isn’t really all that concerned over Russia’s frequent gestures of hostility: D...
This story of the disappearing “lumber” freighter just keeps getting stranger and stranger, as this excerpt from the Moscow Times shows. At least we know that it wasn’t a completely inside job – even though Russian of...
Did you know that Igor Sechin allegedly worked with the famous arms dealer Viktor Bout back in Mozambique in the 1980s? Neither did I, but you probably already know we have been watching all these orders coming for more Russian tanks from Ve...
The words “missiles” and “friendly” don’t often go together, but the people at Boeing have sensed an opportunity for such semantic innovation – conveniently they could also make a lot of money from the silly ima...
Energy Minister Sergei Shmatko has said that electricity prices must increase following the disaster at the Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric plant as it has seen a quarter of RusHydro’s power production suspended. Clean-up efforts hav...
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