The typical reactions have started to roll in from the international community in response to Natalia Estemirova’s murder, and it’s hard not to sense the thick surreality of these calls for justice, investigations, and expectations tha...
I regret to pull such a long excerpt, but Tom Parfitt’s column at the Guardian is very interesting today, and contains a number of personal observations you won’t find in any of the wire reports on the recent tragic events in the Cauca...
Considering the tone coming out of Brussels these days, I think it is safe to say that Russia has really blown its trusted “reliable supplier” cover after a few too many supply cuts. This new draft law looks very interesting, suc...
Vaclav Havel, Lech Walesa, and a long list of other former leaders of Eastern European states have penned an open letter to U.S. President Barack Obama expressing their fears over what kinds of sacrifices to their sovereignty might come along with...
Here’s a link to an editorial on Natalia Estemirova on the Telegraph: President Dmitry Medvedev has expressed “outrage” at Miss Estemirova’s fate. But Russians know that real power rests with their prime minister. Mr Putin ...
First Deputy Prime Minister Viktor Zubkov has declared that the EU and U.S.backed Nabucco gas pipeline is no rival to Russian pipeline projects, and is more likely to end up ‘an empty memorial to certain ambitions‘. This week Med...
The economy has contracted less than predicted, by 10.1% in the first half of the year, but the OECD suggests there may be a storm of bad debt gathering. The Economy Ministry is not over-optimistic regarding growth, suggesting that the count...
TODAY: Rights activist Natalya Estemirova found dead hours after abduction; the US and EU both express regret and urge protection for rights advocates; Putin silent. Russia’s superannuated military struggling to keep up? US soldiers en...
CNN’s Matthew Chance reports on the Natalia Estemirova, and mentions President Dmitry Medvedev’s statement through a spokesperson. I haven’t yet seen a direct Medvedev quote, though Reuters has collected a number of reactio...
Ian Kelly, spokesman at the Bureau of Public Affairs at the U.S. State Department, just had this come across the wire: The United States is deeply saddened by reports of the abduction and murder of respected human rights activist Natalya Estemirov...
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