Remember the good ‘ole times from back in the summer of 2006? Russia was about to host the G8 Summit, Anna Politkovskaya and Stanislav Markelov were still alive and working hard, and Mikhail Khodorkovsky had only been in the gulag 2.5 ...
This bit about Barack Obama’s limited reach in Russia comes from Masha Lipman: The Kremlin keeps a firm grip on societal forces: Its concept of civil society implies loyalty to the state and rules out genuine autonomy. Those who dare defy th...
Ambitious Soviet architecture plans are a real favorite of mine. Right up there next to the planned-but-never-built Palace of the Soviets is the work of Vladimir Tatlin, an architect whose tremendous Monument to the Third International also ...
Here’s the latest article by Robert Amsterdam posted to Huffington Post: President Barack Obama and his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev should be good friends by now. Following his visit with the family to the Kremlin earlier this week, ...
Oil has returned to the $61 mark, from a seven-week low. President Medvedev has told leaders at the G8 summit that it is impossible to regulate oil prices and that $70 to $80 per barrel is a good range. Russia has refused to pledge sup...
Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin has said that GDP will grow by at least 1% in 2010 and that ‘export revenues will decline by $190 billion‘ in 2009. Russia could sign an agreement with the IMF on acquiring bonds worth $10 billion i...
TODAY: Diplomats positive on Obama trip, analysts more sceptical on progress; Medvedev hits G8 summit. Opposition discuss their meeting with Obama; Abkazhia accuses Georgia of spying A high-level Russian diplomat has called the meeting betwe...
The word “Rashsha” is a common way of poking fun at the mispronounciation of the country’s name by English-speaking foreigners, similar to writing “Amerika” with a “k” for a foreign effect. It didn&#...
Today the Associated Press is reporting that the Russian security services have raided the offices of the legally troubled company Sibir Energy. Earlier this spring we saw Gazprom begin to pull some moves on Sibir that were very similar to i...
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