The latest variant for fitting out Russia Grigory Pasko, journalist Grigory Yavlinsky appeared on 21 March at a conference of ecologists in the settlement of Dubrovsky outside Moscow. Here are quotes from his speech. “…The freeloaders ...
Foreign Policy is sure getting a lot of links from us today, but this book review by Peter Baker is worth a read: Even as Medvedev flew to London to meet with President Obama for the first time this month, Russian authorities hauled onetime oligar...
Federico Fubini, an Italian journalist at Corriere della Serra, has published an interesting interview with the Ukrainian PM Yulia Tymoshenko in Foreign Policy in which it is possible to see just how thin the line is becoming for Ukraine – s...
I came across this translation from the Latvian press on TOL about whether or not the global financial crisis is changing Russia’s foreign policy ambitions in its near abroad. The short answer: no. You would think that given this incre...
Ten years ago Russia was able to take what was believed to be their last foreign loan – a moment of great celebration and symbolic importance of financial sovereignty. Today, Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin has raised the possibility th...
Cathy Young writes in the WSJ about the tug-of-war going on between Russia and Ukraine over who can claim nationality of the famously gifted writer Nikolai Gogol: Gogol once wrote that he could never decide whether his soul was Russian or Ukrainia...
Oil has fallen below $50 a barrel, as an Energy Department report is expected to show that US crude stockpiles have increased by 2 million barrels. Turkmen President, Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov, has ordered an investigation into the recent ...
A ‘stable and predictable’ ruble will see Russia through the financial crisis, according to the head of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, reports Bloomberg. Moscow City Hall will help developers to complete d...
TODAY: Lebedev removed from Sochi election; Israel lobbies Russia over Iran; government environmental inspector resigns; Business FM has its say ‘It’s the usual trick to get rid of a strong candidate’, says Alexander Lebedev, aft...
We recently had the opportunity to sit down with Dr. Ariel Cohen, who just edited a new report on Russia. In our conversations, Dr. Cohen discussed the challenges facing the Obama Administration in managing relations with Russia, diplomacy w...
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