We posted an earlier review of this book here. The following comes from Andrew Nagorski at Truthdig: Right at the beginning of “History’s Greatest Heist: The Looting of Russia by the Bolsheviks,” Sean McMeekin reminds reade...
The natural gas dispute between Gazprom and the Ukraine is creating upward pressure on crude oil futures, along with the conflict in the Gaza Strip. Official data shows that Russian oil production decreased by about 1% in 2008 due to ageing ...
To the shock of citizens, the Belarus ruble has slid 20% in value as the government pegged the currency for the first time to exchange basket equally split between dollars, euros, and Russian rubles. The IMF has also negotiated a $2.5 billio...
TODAY: Worries over the gas cut off, no more jury trials, an evacuation in Gaza, war games with Greece, Czechs in charge of the EU, a scandal with the Philippines, more Arctic fighting, and the Russian Navy is deployed to fight the Somali pirates....
On this day nine years ago, Vladimir Putin was sworn into office, bearing lofty promises: “In the traditional midnight New Year’s Eve address to the nation, Vladimir Putin, Russia’s new acting President, promised Russians that he...
I wouldn’t usually bother posting clips from Russia Today, but for those of you who wanted to get a look at Russia’s newest media celebrity, Igor Panarin, this one should do the trick. According to Panarin, the United States is d...
The Associated Press has announced that President Dmitry Medvedev has signed into law a new bill which will restrict jury trials for cases involving terrorism and treason. Thanks to the newly expanded definition of treason, this could involv...
Last night Moscow closed the books on a very eventful 2008 – and in traditional Russian style, I have no doubt everyone rang it in with tremendous style as though it were still the halcyon days of July. Russia finished the year with a much s...
The man from the magazine cover and the country in ruins Grigory Pasko, journalist Если Вы хотите прочитать оригинал данной статьи на русском языке, нажмите сюда. In the last new year holidays Time brought joy to the whole world by recognizing Put...
From Irina Yasina in the Lebanon Daily Star: Whole regions – the Urals and Mordovia, for example – are stagnant. Moscow, which used to rain gold on the economy, is also suffering, because it, too, depends on natural resources, and its ...
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