Apparently I missed quite the stinging attack against Henry Kissinger made by Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov during his visit to CFR about a month ago. This is interesting to me because for the past six months or so Kissinger has been seen as the ...
How could I resist? …don’t worry, I’m not trying to compete with English Russia. Didi Senft, a 56-year-old cycling fan better known as ‘El Diablo’, poses with a chess bike for the media at the ‘Bundeskunsthalle&...
Some amusing commentary from Al Kamen on the McCain-Palin campaign’s accidental solicitation for donations from the Russian Mission to the United Nations. The Russians released a copy of a Sept. 29 solicitation addressed to Vitaly I. Churkin...
Russia probably should devalue the ruble, but can’t afford to inspire a massive round of withdrawal and conversion panic. From the Financial Times: Managing the rouble poses a similar challenge. The currency’s recovery has symbolised Russia’...
At least that’s what Alexander Lebedev tells the Wall Street Journal about the release of Sergei Storchak: Alexander Lebedev, a billionaire banker and friend of Mr. Storchak who has been one of his strongest public defenders since his arrest...
I’m just amazed by the dizzying news cycle of all these broadcast outlets during my brief visit to New York City this week. It’s actually quite hypnotic and surreal … I think that a few more days of this and I won’t even re...
Below is a translation of a piece of news from Interfax reporting on a court’s decision to release former Deputy Finance Minister Sergei Storchak, who was the right-hand man of Russia’s last remaining financial liberal, Alexei Kudrin, ...
S. Adam Cardais of TOL writes that Russia is “basking” in its the international glamor of being able to bailout Iceland: “And Russia is positioned, as a revitalized once-superpower flush with cash, to rescue Iceland, a NATO membe...
The BBC reports that Russia’s economy, especially the construction and real estate sector, is grinding to a halt… But below Prime Minister Putin continues to insist that everything is peachy. RA has commented that the word “crisi...
The New York Review of Books has published a review of the film Letter to Anna: The Story of Journalist Politkovskaya’s Death, written by Amy Knight. You can order a copy of the DVD of this documentary here. The trailer is here. By the time of Cha...
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