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January 5, 2009

RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – Jan 5th, 2009

TODAY: Ukraine gas cuts affecting the supply of seven EU countries; Russia calling for Gaza ceasefire; navy to station warships all over the world; opposition newspaper offices hit by fire; US-Russia adoption slammed by United Russia.The Czech Rep...
January 4, 2009

Kasparov’s Epiphanies

Garry Kasparov jots down a few epiphanies in the magazine Foreign Policy.  We think the last one is the best. I REMEMBER one of the guards followed me to the roof [of the jail] where I was walking, and he asked me, ‘How is it that a man...
January 3, 2009

A Lack of Flexibility

We are enjoying Robert Coalson’s new gig over at the Huffington Post.  This is from the latest: The problem is not only the crisis, but the fact that the Putin political/economic system in Russia has no flexibility and only a tiny fract...
January 3, 2009

Interview with Yuri Schmidt

Anna Nemtsova interviews Yuri Schmidt of the Mikhail Khodorkovsky defense team over on Newsweek: A crisis-stricken Kremlin is courting Western investors, and activists hope this may lead to the release of high-profile political prisoners, like the...
January 2, 2009

Better or Worse after the Crisis?

The Economist believes that soon the Russian government will have to pay the piper for all the bullying and stealing of years past – but whether or not this improves relations is by no means guaranteed. The West may not have much leverage ov...
January 2, 2009

Accounting for Culture in the New Russian Nationalism

The death of long-time conservative scholar Samuel Huntington has kicked off a lively discussion in various quarters on his legacy, his ideas, and his enduring argument – made much more popular after 9/11 – that the fundamental source ...
January 2, 2009

Grigory Pasko: The Power and its Competence

The power and its competence Grigory Pasko, journalist Если Вы хотите прочитать оригинал данной статьи на русском языке, нажмите сюда. There’s a strange organization in Russia. It’s called the «Public chamber». In the image of this str...
January 2, 2009

Three Predictions on Russia, China, and the U.S.

At least one person out there doesn’t seem to think that the low oil prices and economic difficulties is going to derail Russia’s agenda to seize back control of its periphery … but then again, this is Fox News.  It seems od...
January 2, 2009

Video: Consumerism Gone Crazy in Russia

This video has been making its way around the internet over the past few days.  It shows the opening of a Moscow retailer which had advertised discounts of 80% on laptops, but only had ten of them to sell.  The Russian shoppers show a pa...