G20 leaders, including Russia, have committed not to introduce any new trade barriers over the next year, complicating Vladimir Putin’s original crisis plan to raise import duties on ‘a wide range of goods‘. The descent of ...
TODAY: G20 summit sees Russian optimism over Obama and a tentative offer to back down on missile defense; pro-Kremlin liberal party formed; Georgia-Russia PR war continues; Svetlana Bakhmina transferred to maternity ward. President Dmitry Medvedev...
The British are a peculiar bunch. I’ve lived here for years now, and still occasionally find myself surprised once in a while by the sudden reversals in foreign policy. It’s as though the FCO practices a unique brand of sel...
Geoffrey Robertson has a good piece in today’s Independent about President-elect Barack Obama’s potential to become a global human rights defender. How will this impact relations with Russia? He also points out the careful ...
From the New York Times: As a bill extending Russia’s presidency from four to six years barreled through the Russian legislature on Friday, it fell to the old-timers from the Communist Party to put up a fight. “Why do we have to do thi...
The following is our third and final translation from the Russian press of Polish historian Adam Michnik’s recent visit to Moscow (also the first and second articles). In this interview with Sergey Buntman on Echo Moskvy, which originally ai...
Recent stories about Russian passports being distributed in Crimea, Ukraine have raised quite a ruckus. But that doesn’t seem to be the only place in the Ukraine with some ethnic nationalism issues, and a new report we’ve translated fr...
Erling the frenetic A portrait of a journalist against the background of a fortunate country Grigory Pasko, journalist Если Вы хотите прочитать оригинал данной статьи на русском языке, нажмите сюда. The Norwegian television journalist Erling Borge...
Leon Aron has a very interesting new piece over at TheAmerican.com. We thought it was about time that somebody dusted off Max Weber’s views on authoritarian political models for application to today’s Russia. In addition to the charact...
From the Associated Press: As the European Union prepares to restart talks on cooperation with Russia, the United States is warning that the move could undermine Western attempts to rein in the Kremlin’s aggressive foreign policy. (…) ...
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