The Wall Street Journal has a column today discussing the humbled ambitions of several authoritarian leaders in these days of low oil prices: We’re not suggesting the mullahs, Putinocracy or the Chávez regime are at death’s door. None ...
From George H. Wittman in the American Spectator: As the financial crisis deadens the exuberance of Putin’s leadership, there also has been an increase in dissension between the military/security factions on one side and the economic/busines...
Our readers are likely familiar with the unfortunate fate of Yevgeny Gontmakher, an economist who published the article Novocherkassk-2009 (translated on this blog), providing a bleak outlook of what many one-factory Russian towns are experiencing...
From Simon Tisdall in the Guardian: The Georgian eruption had wide-ranging consequences. It embarrassingly exposed the disunity, rivalry and weakness that characterises an energy-dependent European Union in its dealings with Russia. And it placed ...
The New York Times reports on how the once mighty Gazprom has fallen on hard times to negotiate a govt. bailout, while the company offsets this news with financial reports from the second quarter that profits had tripled before the crash of the oi...
Yesterday Russia allowed the ninth devaluation of the ruble for the month, dragging down the value by 18% since August – however, against the dollar, the ruble has gained .08%. Russian economic officials report 1.6% GDP growth for Nove...
TODAY: Extended presidential terms signed into law – protests in response, a missile test gone awry, clashes in Dagestan claim life of top Russian official, Abramovich to sell yacht or Chelsea while Latvia asks to be bought, fallen hoc...
Alistair Gee has a report on the time-honored Russian tradition of dodging the Army draft, which brings to mind the recently forced conscription of the activist Oleg Kozlovsky. The lengths that Russians go to avoid the Army hint at other problems&...
It’s been a while since we’ve heard news from that other problematic frozen conflict in Moldova, Transnistria, where separatists groups are more hopeful than ever that the invasion and occupation of regions of Georgia by Russian milita...
Deng Xiao Pu and his team Grigory Pasko, journalist Recently in the Russian mass information media there appeared a publication, the main theme of which was – the rating of the broadcast “A Talk with Vladimir Putin”, which had be...
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