At the EU summit Russia warned that it will not extend any loans to Ukraine and refused to offer guarantees that gas supplies would not be interrupted. President Viktor Yushchenko has said that the agreement Ukraine and Russia came to in Jan...
According to First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov, the bad loan situation is apparently ‘under control’ and the country ‘prepared for a difficult situation’. Other sources are less confident, predicting that non-...
TODAY: No resolution at EU-Russia summit; Putin warns against outside interference in dealings with Ukraine; Lavrov encourages dialogue with Hamas; Kremlin concerned by OSCE appointment; the activities of Patriarch Kirill Reuters reports that Russ...
The Washington Post is running an editorial today criticizing the engagement policy of the Obama administration toward Hugo Chavez’s Venezuela – where conditions for the opposition have deteriorated rapidly over the past 2-3 months.&nb...
One of the oldest tricks in the authoritarian playbook is the subtle theft of the people’s sovereignty, grafting the rights of citizens onto a regime of personal power. Cuba’s Fidel Castro was and is the grandmaster of this tactic R...
KGB methods are back in action Grigory Pasko, journalist Echo Moskvy and Kasparov.Ru are both reporting a story about an attempt by an FSB officer to “recruit” a student and opposition activist at Moscow State University, threatening t...
Sometimes you can tell the health of the Russian economy not by the RTS swings or major acquisition moves, but rather something as simple as movements in the executive hiring sector. The Russia branch of Goldman Sachs has lost two key guys i...
Fraser Cameron, the director of the EU-Russia Centre, has a good opinion column in the Moscow Times today taking a look at the various “carrots” available to Europe to improve relations in Russia, as they meet for their Summit today wa...
Irina Filatova has a new comment piece over on the Guardian about Dmitry Medvedev’s formation of a new commission to fight back against the “falsification” of history. She points out that despite some seemingly noble endeav...
I’d like to highlight the following extract from commenter Ashepe: What is it like to be a Russian in Ukraine? How many of them see anything other than what Russian TV tells them? Are the seeds of future civil wars being sown? Wouldn’t...
To provide the best experiences, we use technologies like cookies to store and/or access device information. Consenting to these technologies will allow us to process data such as browsing behavior or unique IDs on this site. Not consenting or withdrawing consent, may adversely affect certain features and functions.
Functional
Always active
The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network.
Preferences
The technical storage or access is necessary for the legitimate purpose of storing preferences that are not requested by the subscriber or user.
Statistics
The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for statistical purposes.The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for anonymous statistical purposes. Without a subpoena, voluntary compliance on the part of your Internet Service Provider, or additional records from a third party, information stored or retrieved for this purpose alone cannot usually be used to identify you.
Marketing
The technical storage or access is required to create user profiles to send advertising, or to track the user on a website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes.
