Prime Minister Vladimir Putin will give the opening speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos this evening, in which he will ‘express his attitude toward the causes of the crisis and the circumstances on the world arena … that led to...
TODAY: Russia to halt US retaliation plans; Church elects news leader; Russian military is a ‘paper tiger’; Russia-Georgia soldier spat; Putin ‘too trusting’.Russia has halted its plan to retaliate against a proposed US mis...
Here’s an excerpt from an editorial on the murder of Stanislav Markelov on VOA News which “reflects the opinion of the U.S. government” – Barack Obama’s government, I might add. The Russian people have spoken loudly i...
Based on the results of a survey by the analytical center of Yuri Levada, carried out last year, Russians named as the countries most unfriendly, antagonistically disposed towards Russia: Georgia, the USA, Ukraine, Estonia, the Baltic states...
From Brian Whitmore over at the excellent blog The Power Vertical: Putin and his closest allies revered Andropov (most of them joined the KGB in the mid-1970s when he ran the spy agency) and tried to establish a new version of his “authorita...
Some Russians seem to think that clandestine, byzantine networks of Republican elites control Washington like the siloviki run Russia. From Anne Applebaum in the Washington Post: Yet there was another, more negative category of foreign respo...
Benedict Mander at the Financial Times points out that the crash in oil prices is causing Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez to abandon some of the more expensive diplomatic activities that the government has been using to up its influence in the re...
The slumping price of oil reduces the amount of ‘easy’ money available to pay bribes, and could contribute to an overall drop in corruption, according to an economist at Russia’s Troika Dialog. An aide to Ukrainian President Vikt...
Yevgeny Chichvarkin, the former owner of mobile phone company Yevroset, who is suspected of kidnapping in Russia, has reportedly fled to London. ‘The case is likely to irritate the Kremlin, which regards Britain as a pernicious haven f...
TODAY: Russia and NATO to resume ties by next month; Russia to build ‘illegal’ naval base in Abkhazia; new patriarch will be ‘alleged former KGB agent’; Storchak case re-opened; Putin and Medvedev ‘at odds’ abou...
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