I recently stumbled upon an interesting report about a group of Orthodox ascetics, living deep in the Russian hinterlands, who have adopted an iconographic image of Vladimir Putin in its religious rituals. “In a previous lifetime, Putin was ...
I caught this video depicting the Russian government’s brutal crackdown on student and youth movement protests over at Oleg Kozlovsky’s excellent blog. He writes: Saturday was marked by new protests in Moscow and in other cities....
From Robert Coalson writing on HuffPo: After the meeting, Muratov spoke with media, including RFE/RL’s Russian Service, and explained that Medvedev had not spoken previously because he did not want to influence the ongoing investigation into...
Remember the oligarch rescue plan? How the Russian government drew up a list of privileged companies and individuals to whom it would divvy out the stimulus funds (despite Putin’s speech at Davos)? Well it seems that the Kremlin ...
Pat Frost at Great Power Politics blogs on the Russia-influenced closure of the Manas air base in Kyrgyzstan. According to the AP, the Russians deny any connection between the aid deal and the air base, but “many experts saw Kyrgyzstan...
Just got this one from Neil Barnett in the Spectator: How, then, can Europe meet its growing energy needs without inhaling more deeply from Siberia’s vast gas reservoirs? Perhaps surprisingly, the EU has a practical role to play. First, in o...
Russia has just become the first of the G8 nations to have its credit rating downgraded by Fitch since the start of the financial crisis, and many predict that its economy will grind to a halt this year. The Independent suggests some reasons...
TODAY: Kyrgyzstan to vote on US base closure next week, but government says it has already made its decision; CSTO Summit leads to creation of rapid reaction force for economic and military support to former Soviet states; Russia welcomes new US t...
Some readers have noticed that I have started a new bilingual blog, Venezuela Report, which I am hoping to develop into an informative platform for discussion and debate about this Latin American country. Other readers are asking exactly what I th...
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