An AP reporter drives the route that both Putin and Medvedev take every day to the Kremlin, noting the stifling traffic, annoyances, and negotiations with traffic cops – but points out the great architecture you can see driving in the middle...
Last week we published a translation from Izvestia about the potential interest the Russian government may have in supporting an obscure nationalist movement in Transcarpathia, Western Ukraine, including the distribution of passports. Below ...
An international event – in the regime of a state of emergency Grigory Pasko – journalist A couple of days ago Russian television in the popular humoristic broadcast «Nasha Rasha» [“Our Russia”, but using a transliteration ...
I am grateful to our Russian correspondent Grigory Pasko, who has done his best to spread the world among the Russian human rights community about the plight of my client Dr. Chee Soon Juan, one of Singapore’s greatest defenders of democracy...
Vasily Alexanyan was once the Harvard-educated general counsel of Russia’s most successful and prestigious company. Today he may be becoming the world’s first victim of prosecutorial murder via medical blackmail. His story ...
Pierre Noël, an energy academic, has a post over at the EU Energy Policy blog which questions the traditional assumption that Europe is becoming increasingly dependent on Russian gas, and points out that Gazprom is facing a number of daunting chal...
Russia is to resume talks with China in an attempt to secure a $25 billion loan for its oil industry. Gazprom may begin an exploration of offshore Alaska with ConocoPhillips. In return, the company is considering ExxonMobil and Conoco ...
NPO Saturn’s inability to secure a loan may force it to cede some control to the state. ‘NPO Saturn’s story highlights the risk of favoritism and abuse in the state’s distribution of tens of billions of dollars in bai...
TODAY: Putin says decision to go ahead with tariffs does not conflict with the G20 Summit decision to hold off on tariffs; Politkovskaya trial to be open to journalists; Bakhmina to file petition for pardon; Obama supports Georgia, all sides denou...
All Things Considered on National Public Radio has a new audio segment interviewing several experts and EU diplomats who hope to see a “new direction” in Europe-Russia relations following the first series of meetings since the war in G...
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