The government’s attempts to boost economic growth and social programs will see spending increased by 650 billion rubles ($18 billion) this year. In the meantime, Vladimir Putin is apparently ramping up efforts to make it easier to reg...
TODAY: Medvedev emphasizes need for new personnel. NATO to resolve differences with Russia soon, Clinton wants Russia dialogue in light of Iranian threat; Russian scholar predicts US demise…again and again. Khodorkovsky judge wil...
This macabre news, which has come from the birthplace of my grandfather, made me think about the question of just what exactly is “Putin’s Plan”? I never did find an answer. On the official website of United Russia – the pa...
The following is an exclusive English translation of a recent article from NewsRu.com. Apparently the United States isn’t the only country where someone can “go postal” with a machine gun, but in this case, the poor guy see...
…and it didn’t take long for them to come out swinging. The funny part is to imagine how much flak he would be getting if the letter/offer to Medvedev were actually successful. From the incomparably moderate and measured mi...
Not a bad observation from Stratfor about the use of the Iskanders in Kaliningrad as a fake bargaining chip – and an excuse to reject Obama’s missile overture: Remember Cold War propaganda? It was certainly on parade in Spain, not just...
The New York Times has finally started a conversation on Obama’s secret letter, on its Opinionator blog. It’s pretty amazing how diversified the reactions are. The Huffington Post sees it as an example of improved diplomacy; some liber...
On the heels of a Bloomberg story about how certain European countries fear losing security initiatives secured under the Bush administration, Der Spiegel reprints an engaging article on EU/Russia relations by Russia scholar Alexander Rahr, origin...
This interesting article on Security Fix, a Washington Post technology blog, finds that of all the cyber crime coming out of Russia, it is actually Russian victims that top the list for hackers (this apparently contradicts the widespread myth that...
Activists from the youth movement Oborona succeeded in hanging a 10-meter long banner reading “Free Khodorkovsky” on a roof of Bohdan Khmelnitsky bridge, which faces the court where the first day of proceedings took place. The tw...
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