Yesterday’s fatal accident at the Sayano-Shushenskaya hydropower plant will present a considerable setback in Russia’s attempts to increase its power production, says the New York Times. It will take ‘years rather than mont...
Banks have tripled their activity levels when it comes to seeking out overdue corporate loans, after President Medvedev berated banks for indulging corporate borrowers. 400 towns that rely on one single employer (such as Pikalyovo) will be e...
TODAY: Violence explodes in Ingushetia; Interior Minister fired. Wall rumored to be built between Georgia and Abkhazia; Georgia to leave CIS. Russian diplomats expelled. Dozens missing in hydropower plant disaster. Ship found. Pr...
I can understand some complaints coming from the Putinistas and even the moderates that criticism from the opposition can begin sound a bit like a broken record: the same laundry lists over and over, just updated with the latest murdered hum...
Superblogger Matt Yglesias thinks that we should start calling a spade a spade in terms of U.S. military training for Georgia – why bother pretending like it is for operations in Afghanistan? That first point is well taken (clearly the...
Below is a quote from a cute-ish little article in the Moscow Times about a woman who has built a museum honoring the “good ole days” of the Soviet Union. Some may shudder to think of this kind of nostalgia for the grind of the d...
This piece over at RealClearWorld about Russia’s policy toward Iran is preaching the choir here at this blog: As long as Iran remains a pariah state, Moscow can use Iran’s isolation to sell them their outdated jets and secondhand produ...
I don’t know what’s worse about today’s suicide bombing in Nazran, Ingushetia. The fact that 20 innocent people were murdered and some 140 injured, or the fact that it is these kinds of horrific attacks which serve as justi...
Well, of course it’s not entirely all gone, though it should be. The following is from a book review of The Red Flag by David Priestland published in the Financial Times: So have we written off communism too soon? That is a question Da...
The Polish premier’s energy adviser has stated that even if negotiations with Russia are unsuccessful, the country will secure gas from another supplier, as high-volume gas imports will be unavoidable in 2010. Diamond giant Alrosa will...
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