This week Vice President Joseph Biden is visiting Georgia, and in honor of being graced with his first high ranking visitor in quite a long time, President Mikheil Saakashvili has released an early copy of his speech to the Wall Street Journal, in...
Here is an extract from a piece in the Financial Times: A comprehensive peace in the northern Caucasus would require long-term policies to win over the non-Russian peoples through political and social inclusion and economic development, and stabil...
Vilhelm Konnander at Global Voices has some translations of LiveJournal users, observing the relative media blackout on the murder of Chechen human rights activist Natalia Estemirova. Whereas Medvedev’s statement on the murder, may have aver...
International lenders and the European Union have agreed to ‘intensify’ talks with Ukraine over possible loans to help Kiev pay for Russian gas as the country indicated a willingness to institute concrete reforms at home. Kiev ha...
Putin has warned beneficiaries of VEB’s emergency loans not to get used to extending their loans. Shalva Chigirinsky may not return to Russia after reportedly failing to show up for questioning regarding a tax evasion case. The G...
TODAY: Kadyrov to sue Memorial head Oleg Orlov for Estemirova accusations; tributes to the murdered activist pour in. CIS summit not a full house; Poland concerned about reset. Medvedev lauds Gorbachev’s anti-alcohol drive. To se...
I thought we would put up a link to this piece from the New York Times, as it highlights how the situation in Urumqi, China has spiraled out of control – in a way that has the Russian leadership very concerned. “Where were the police w...
TIME magazine has published a very interesting profile of Alexander Lebedev and his quest to reform Russia. Robert Amsterdam is quoted in the excerpt below. What is not simple is Russia. That quintessentially Russian query — What is to...
Yesterday we had a brief report summarizing the situation of the closure of the Cherkizovsky market in Moscow, which has had a major economic impact on tens of thousands of Chinese merchants and prompted Beijing to complain. The Chinese stat...
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