The following is a translation from the website of Marieluise Beck, a German Member of Parliament who made herself available to attend hearings of the second trial of Mikhail Khodorkovsky as an observer. This memo summarizes her impressions ...
Apologies to our readers over the past six hours or so, as the blog experienced a temporary outage after we suddenly had used up all of our allotted bandwidth for the month. For the conspiracy crowd, I’m sorry to report that this was n...
Russia and Bulgaria have apparently surmounted tensions over two days of negotiations; Russia will not use Bulgaria’s existing pipeline to transit gas to Europe as part of South Stream, but will contemplate other options. The two countries a...
Having initially predicted contraction of 3%, Citigroup Inc. now believes the Russian economy will shrink by at least 6.5% this year. VEB will provide over 300 billion rubles in loans to Russian enterprise over the course of 2009. The ...
TODAY: meat import ban contested by US; 35,000 army officers face dismissal this year; Lavrov concerned by EU moves towards ex-USSR states; crack down on internet users; Soviet damages; Bolshoi star dies Russia has extended a ban on importing meat...
Below is a video compilation of some of the interviews I shot in Washington DC this month with various Russia and Caucasus experts, this time commenting on the current political crisis in Georgia, the August invasion by Russia, and the general tre...
Karinna Moskalenko believes that foreign leaders have a moral duty ask the Russian president difficult questions, regardless of the inconvenience. We agree. From the Helsingin Sanomat: A day after the visit to Finland of Russian President Dmitri M...
If you only read one article about Russia today, we would highly recommend Peter Reddaway’s extensive analysis posted over at the National Interest (don’t worry, the tone is actually very measured). Reddaway takes a look at the p...
It seems that when it comes to the Russian invasion of Georgia in August 2008, impartiality is very hard to come by. A supposedly independent commission from the European Union is soon due to put out its report on who did what, but the Germa...
There’s an interesting piece on the Sochi election over at the Power Vertical blog. Leaving aside for a moment what the election means for Solidarity, there are conclusions to be drawn from the Kremlin’s point of view. First, the victo...
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