From Der Spiegel: In response to the outrage the Estemirova murder triggered abroad, Kadyrov, seemingly with utter conviction, announced that the “terrible crime” would be swiftly investigated and said he would personally see to it tha...
This is quite an interesting observation from PoliGazette: At Friday prayers July 17 at Tehran University, the influential cleric and former Iranian President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani gave his first sermon since Iran’s disputed president...
Oil prices are hovering around the $63 mark, with the market ‘see-sawing based on people’s perception of the US economy — they don’t really know if the recovery is durable‘, says Bloomberg. Gazprom borrowed more...
The ruble has made its biggest leap in a decade, jumping 2.4% against the dollar, with Urals crude advancing to more than $65 a barrel. GM has three final offers for the Opel sale, which included a modified proposal from Magna which would re...
TODAY: Georgia hoping for US backing on monitoring against ‘enemy’ Russia, promises reforms in advance of Biden’s arrival. Medvedev asserts arms talks to continue with US; CIS summit sign of waning influence? Medvedev...
Catherine Belton has just published an article in the Financial Times which features a first-time interview with the former Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov revealing “a closed-door conversation he claims he had with Vladimir Putin in which t...
What does the closing of a large Moscow flea market have in common with a fake tax evasion case-slash-state takeover scheme of an oil company? Moscow’s Mayor Yuri Luzhkov is at the center of both them, revealing, what some sources in m...
As some of you have probably read in the news, this week my fellow citizens and I woke up to a new Russia, under even greater control by the inheritants of the KGB. As initially reported by Newsru.com, “beginning on the 21st of July, l...
Reuters points out some members of the CIS are having some disagreements with the Kremlin. This year’s Presidential Cup horse race, a traditional cue for an informal gathering of the 11-member Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), drew o...
Ever since Barack Obama’s first relatively friendly state visit to Moscow, Washington and the Kremlin have engaged in a showdown of gestures over the elephant in the room: the legitimacy of Russia’s claim to a privileged sphere o...
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