One of the most subtle forms of discrimination is said to be embodied in the application of diminished expectations – which has certainly been the phenomenon toward Russia in recent years as compared to the high hopes following the collapse ...
Legal Business, a United Kingdom trade publication, has published a nice profile of Robert Amsterdam today. It is mostly behind a subscriber pay wall, but you can read the beginning of the piece here.
The Washington Post has an editorial today about Russia’s possible intentions to re-invade Georgia and finish off the despised President Miheil Saakashvili. The article doesn’t offer much new, but there is this assumption, seen h...
According to President Medvedev, the current value of Urals at $60-70 a barrel is ‘a fairly just price’. Finnish Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen has said the government will need more time to decide upon whether or not to approve t...
Presidential aide Arkady Dvorkovich has said that Russian economy will probably remain stable for the next few months as oil prices remain at $50 per barrel or more. Russia’s economy has apparently shrunk at the slowest pace since Octo...
TODAY: NATO ministerial level meeting to take place in Corfu; deputies suggests nationalization of troubled Pikalyovo factory; gay rights activist to sue Moscow mayor; blacklisting practice; bribery affecting the poor ‘We have always had qui...
The Other Russia is running a translation from Yezhednevny Zhurnal about the Russian police’s use of blacklists to track the movements of suspected members of the opposition as well as normal, non-politically active citizens. One of th...
When are these reactionary regional leaders ever going to learn that the best way to “protect the integrity of the president” is not to freak out over every small protest or publication of criticism? One would assume that not eve...
Yulia Latynina has a new column in the Moscow Times taking a look at Russia’s foreign policy toward North Korea. We love Yulia, but perhaps my only complaint may be is that she is much too moderate and measured in her words. She ...
Today a former KGB spy, living in Canada since 1997, has taken refuge inside a church in Vancouver in a desperate move to avoid deportation of himself and his family. The Canadian authorities are seeking to send Mikhail Lennikov, his wife Ir...
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