Wow. A very important article in the Washington Post by Lev Gudkov, Igor Klyamkin, Georgy Satarov and Lilia Shevtsova. More comments coming later. We object, for example, to the basic proposition of calling for a return to realpolitik because some...
Maryana Torocheshnikova writes about the trial of Mikhail Khodorkovsky in OpenDemocracy: The new charge against Khodorkovsky and Lebedev is, among other things, based on many documents containing absurd factual errors. As an example the defence hi...
Alexei Kuznetsov, one of CBS’s correspondents in Russia has written about Vladimir Putin’s emergency action in the struggling town of Pikalyovo – and what kind of sign this sends to the rest of the Russian population getting the ...
Yesterday we dug up some quotes from Chris Weafer speculating on the Kremlin’s “unfinished business” in taking over control of Norilsk Nickel and creating a state-owned mining giant. Here Mikhail Prokhorov of Onexim Group (...
Vladimir Ryzhkov makes a rather convincing point about President Medvedev’s efforts to prevent the “falsification” of history – that the best way to do this would indeed be to fully open up the Soviet archives. Sure, ...
Japan and Russia are set to publish 2020 goals for greenhouse gas emissions, to help push the UN towards talks on a new climate treaty. Gazprom is reportedly seeking $10.5 billion in loans from state owned banks, as a way of ‘insuring&...
President Medvedev has said that bankruptcy laws need to be changed to maximize the possibilities of ‘revamping an enterprise‘. Apparently Russian bailiffs are on the point of selling Telenor’s stake in Vimpelcom to cover t...
TODAY: Military spending increased; Central Asia open to US influence?; Oleg Deripaska to pay out more for wage arrears; Ukraine denies entry to Russian lawmaker; rehabilitation of RomanovsA report on global military spending has shown that Russia...
Bret Stephens has a new one in the Wall Street Journal, teeing off on Vladimir Putin for his surprisingly public betrayal of Oleg Deripaska, scapegoating him as a “cockroach” whose inordinate greed costs the jobs of so many Russian wor...
Ariel Cohen has a new piece in the Washington Times, which has some very interesting material on Russia’s growing diplomatic overtures to Mongolia to seal up uranium supplies, as well as some info on a letter sent by President Barack Obama t...
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