From the Washington Post’s coverage of the acquittal of defendants in the Anna Politkovskaya trial: The verdict came one month after a well-known human rights lawyer, Stanislav Markelov, and a student journalist, Anastasia Baburova, were gun...
EU energy ministers are ‘wrangling’ over how to spend 3.75 billion euros ($4.7 billion) on securing energy supplies after the most recent Russia-Ukraine gas crisis. Is another crisis of this kind inevitable? Ukraine’s...
Vladimir Yakunin, the boss of Russian Railways, has criticized Russia’s Central Bank for not holding back Russian’s firms from taking on excessive foreign debt. Click here for the report and video of the interview with the BBC.&n...
TODAY: Responses to Politkovskaya verdict; Khodorkovsky to be moved to Moscow ahead of trial; Russia to supply grain to Brazil? US-Russia relations, reflections on Kyrgyz base closure; Medvedev reassures the military.The unanimous ‘not guilt...
We haven’t heard much lately from our occasional Russian political analyst, the Polittechnologist – apparently he’s been spending much of his time in various third-world countries south of the equator. On a recent trip closer to ...
Three days after beleaguered Russian Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin asked for more time to revise a 2009 budget hampered by falling oil prices and other fallout from the financial crisis, Forbes weighs in on the exceedingly difficult chore, which ...
A goodwill deal between Russia and Georgia, brokered by the EU and UN, to prevent further conflict between the two countries was announced today. And yet one wonders how effective diplomacy will be in mending a continuing cultural schism evidenced...
News from the front lines of Russia’s clan wars always seem to feature similar trends – inconsistent and sometimes contradicting information, use of the news media as warning bell, overlapping elements of oil, state-owned businesses, a...
After Kyrgyzstan announced the closure of Manas Air Base, many analysts speculated about Russia’s role in the affair, particularly in light of the $2 billion financial assistance package Russia giftwrapped for its former republic. Today, the...
Following our earlier reporting, today The Guardian has a comprehensive look at the semi-farce that was the Anna Politkovskaya murder trial, which ended in a not guilty verdict today for the three men accused of the murder. From The Guardian: R...
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