TODAY: Divided voices on US-Russia relations; Ukraine to seek $5 billion loan from Russia; Belarusian president leaning on Russia; visa rules to be eased for skilled workers; Moscow holds its biggest ever contemporary art exhibition.A Republican s...
In Washington DC this week I had the opportunity to meet with the political analyst Andrei Piontkovsky, the survivor of a political trial, the author of some great books about Russia, and a current analyst for the Hudson Institute. Among oth...
This is extracted from a book review by Gary Saul Morson of the New Criterion on Inside the Stalin Archives by Jonathan Brent. Stalinism was idealist in another, even more terrifying sense: it aimed at controlling from within the very thoughts we ...
Cherchez la femme! The legislative power of the Russian Federation, as always, is on the lookout for spies Grigory Pasko, journalist The State Duma of Russia on 18 March instructed its committee on security to gather in the law-enforcement organs ...
The who-started-it debate on the Georgian war has resurfaced, thanks to a Russian action film ‘shot in the same style as the Bourne trilogy’ which is due to be broadcast on Russian television in the coming weeks. Reuters reports:...
Russia’s Federal State Statistics Service today announced that the total number of unemployed Russians stood around 6.4 million people last month (8.5% of the economically active population) – a 4.9% increase on January figures. ...
Shell announced that it has stopped investing in the conventional renewable energy sources, wind, solar and hydropower, and will concentrate instead on developing second-generation biofuels. Chechnya’s deputy finance minister denies th...
Under a revised budget, Russia is to boost spending by 667 billion rubles this year to tackle the recession, which is forecast to continue well into the second quarter. ‘Russia is the only country among the Group of 20 with double-digi...
TODAY: International forces could replace troops in Transdnestr; action film based on Georgian war to be screened; US plays down threat posed by Russian military upgrade; state officials double in number; NGO fund distribution ‘nontransparen...
This appeared in the Moscow Times, originally an editorial in Vedomosti. Former Chancellor Gerhard Schröder sure has earned his money. Although France and Italy also supported the downgrading of Nabucco, Germany, which stands to be on the re...
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