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April 20, 2009

RA’s Daily Russian News Blast – April 20, 2009

TODAY: Medvedev the latest to criticize NATO exercises; perseverance required in nuclear talks; budget revenues may fall short; one million temporary jobs to be created; London’s Speakers Corner ‘cool’ President Medvedev has spok...
April 19, 2009

The Human Potemkin Village

George Will seems to be testing some new comedic material in one of his latest columns, bruising the Obama administration over making a priority of getting a nukes treaty with Russia.  He calls Dmitry Medvedev a “human potemkin village&...
April 19, 2009

Personal Politics between Russia and Georgia

This New York Times piece has been making the rounds this weekend, pointing out, for those who didn’t already know, that Mikheil Saakashvili and Vladimir Putin don’t get along all that well.  But the highly emotional angle between...
April 17, 2009

NATO between Russia and Georgia

I just caught this post over at Heritage about the back-and-forth over NATO exercises in Georgia.  It seems that the opposition protests which have seized the capital have provided a nice cover for the Russians to begin making some movements....
April 17, 2009

Nigeria’s El-Rufai a Victim of Trial by Headline

The following is a statement we put out today on the Nasir El-Rufai case in Nigeria. Nigeria’s El-Rufai a Victim of Trial by Headline, Say Lawyers Crass tactics of intimidation and slander against Nasir el-Rufai reveal political persecution ...
April 17, 2009

Video: Is Dmitry Medvedev Independent?

We recently conducted several separate interviews with several Russia experts, including David Satter, Anders Aslund, Svante Cornell, Ariel Cohen, and Paul Goble, to ask them about their impressions of President Dmitry Medvedev’s independenc...
April 17, 2009

Grigory Pasko: Billions in Russia-Venezuela Arms Deals

Russia’s main business – arms Grigory Pasko, journalist Not too long ago the magazine Kommersant-Vlast published a detailed article about the volumes or Russian arms export in the years 2004-2008.  According to the data of the pub...
April 17, 2009

Grigory Pasko: The Servile Kremlin Press Corps

The servile Kremlin pool Grigory Pasko, journalist The obsequiousness with which the journalists who are in proximity to the first persons – those who are part of the so-called Kremlin pool – write down everything the first persons say...
April 17, 2009

Protests Get Creative in Georgia

The AP has an interesting story about all the political theatre happening on the sidelines of the Georgian opposition protests, which seem to be continuing with no end in sight … is it too early for us to call this the Rose Revolution II?&nb...
April 17, 2009

A Gentleman’s Agreement

It seems that no matter what we are hearing about Chechnya, it is difficult to feel very optimistic about it.  Many newspaper editorials are panicking, while the declarations of “victory” seem akin to George W. Bush’s “...