From a book review of Jeffrey Tayler’s Murderers in Masoleums published in the Washington Post. Despite enormous variations in their traditions and beliefs, all the Eurasians he encounters seem uniformly disgusted with their governments. At ...
Brussels is currently going through some revisions on their lobbying regulations, seeking to establish a higher standard for transparency – coincidentally losing Gazprom one of its most expensive levers of influence. No problem, they s...
The Economist is running an article that evaluates a recent study, published in the British journal Lancet, of the sudden drop in the life expectancy of Russian male from 1991 to 1994. Amazingly, the study blames ‘shock therapy’ ...
Russians may have a bit of a different understanding of what Barack Obama said during his inaugural speech. From the Moscow Times: One problem for translators was the list of American values Obama called upon Americans to return to — &...
Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko says that the gas price of $450 per 1,000 cubic meters, agreed by Russia and Ukraine for 2009, is ‘fair‘, but a Moscow Times report suggests Tymoshenko will try to negotiate a discount on Russi...
The Central Bank says it will stop widening the ruble trading corridor from today, and switch to a managed float. Meanwhile, some real estate companies and car dealers are repricing their fees in ‘conditional units’ instead of ru...
TODAY: The popular Mr Putin; Medvedev trying to sway Uzbeks; Russia could broker Afghan deal with NATO; Human Rights Watch says both sides of the Georgia-Russia war violated the law, accusations continue to fly.A new poll by the Levada Center says...
From Irina Filatova on the Guardian’s Comment is Free: Many in Russia compare Budanov’s case with that of Svetlana Bakhmina, a legal executive in the firm of the former tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky and mother of three children. She also...
Below is a translation of a blog post by Vladimir Varfolomeyev, a reporter who works at Echo Moskvy. Hat tip to Veronica Khokhlova at Global Voices for bringing it to our attention. Callous people 21 Jan, 2009 at 7:41 PM The “Live jour...
Not too difficult to see what’s going on here. From UPI: “The need to diversify routes of supplying gas from my country to EU member states has been underlined by this crisis,” Russian ambassador Vladimir Chizhov told the E...
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