This past weekend a dear friend of mine, Olga Konskaya, passed away. Words are insufficient to express my grief. My thoughts and prayers are with her friends and family. Olga Konskaya, a prominent Russian film producer, director and actress, died ...
Whoa! The RTS is booming today. From the Financial Times: Yet one market has outperformed all others. Russian equities have more than doubled since they touched lows in January – gaining particular momentum since the return of ri...
Russia’s hostile disapproval of the EU’s Eastern Partnership initiative is surprising for many reasons, notes a new study from German Institute for International and Security Affairs by Susan Stewart. First of all, this is just a...
The following long article was published in the Polish magazine Dziennik. “Power, Carry out Your Laws!” By Robert Amsterdam These words stated by Mikhail Khodorkovsky at the start of a second show trial against him in Moscow this March...
Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin has said that should Europe offer support, Russia may assist in a gas loan to Ukraine. It seems unlikely that the EU will agree, with European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso saying a loan would be ...
Sberbank, GAZ and Canada’s Magna International have won the bid for Opel; the government has not commented on the sale, although Putin was seen taking his vintage GAZ-21 for a spin. Bloomberg reports that the deal may deepen ties betwe...
TODAY: Talks on Russia joining WTO require work; South Ossetia election sees Georgia tensions simmer; no ‘begging’ for Belarus; Moscow opposition march broken up by police; Russian dolls President Dmitry Medvedev and Japanese Prime Min...
A small anti-Putin rally was broken up rather abruptly and quickly today in Moscow, with the arrests of some 30 people, including Natsbols leader Eduard Limonov. One would think that the government would find a that a more confident show of ...
Yesterday the Associated Press published a pretty interesting profile of the former Soviet dissident Sergei Kovalyov, who laments the lack of interest in this side of Russian history. Just got around to reading it this morning, and found som...
Check out “Rethinking Russia,” an hour-long discussion with three prominent Russia scholars on the state of U.S./Russia relations, premiering this Tuesday at 8:00 pm on Dan Rather Reports, on the cable channel HDNet. Dan Rather hosts t...
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