Of all the doomsday scenarios Europe fears in its increasingly complicated relationship with Russia, the notion of the economic crisis weakening Democratic and economic advances in Eastern Europe, and particularly in ex-Soviet states, surely ranks...
In December, Disney announced plans to introduce a free version of the Disney Channel in Russia, a market prepped for “vast growth…despite the near-term economic turmoil.” But over the weekend Forbes reported that Russia’s ...
Mikhail Gorbachev has been all over the news lately. First there was the announcement he was joining forces with his alleged political protege, the billionaire banker Alexander Lebedev, to form a new political party supportive of “less state...
‘Giant European energy companies are investing billions in US natural gas and oil fields where huge, hard-to-get reserves have been unlocked with new drilling technology.’ Iran is planning to ‘pre-commission’ its Bush...
Oleg Deripaska supposedly told Russian reporters that ‘the state should be left alone. We do not need financial help from the state,’ but Deripaska’s LDV, a van group based in Britain, is reportedly due to hold emergency talks wi...
TODAY: Anti-Kremlin protest in Moscow draws ‘several hundred’; Medvedev criticizes the speed of government’s anti-crisis measures. US to take Russian concerns into account on missile defense; China deems Russia’s actions &#...
From the editorial page of the Financial Times: It is no surprise that Russia suffers some political violence, given the strains involved in the aftermath of the Soviet Union’s collapse. But the authorities’ failure to respond properly...
The following is an extract of a comment I wrote up for the legal news website JURIST on the due process violations that have characterized the run up to the second trial of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, due to begin in some weeks: The defense team underl...
Today, the Council on Foreign Relations interviews David Albright, President of the Institute for Science and International Security, who thinks Iran will acquire enough low-enriched uranium this year to “reach the first level of breakout ca...
A new survey by the Sofia Center for Social Studies says that only one quarter of Ukrainian citizens think Russia is a “friendly state and strategic partner.” Meanwhile, we already know what many Ukrainians think of Russian ambassador ...
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