TODAY: Medvedev calls for ban on use of force; opponents criticize anti-corruption measures; Lavrov calls for Georgia embargo; Soviet brand names, ‘Evil Empire’. President Dmitry Medvedev spoke at the World Policy Conference in Evian, calling for ...
It seems that I have taken my own sweet time in getting around to writing about all the not-very-interesting things the two presidential candidates said about Russia last night, and that many other bloggers have already issued their opinions. Alth...
This one comes from Breakingviews.com: Fast-forward to October, 2008. Russia is being hit by a double-whammy. The credit crunch is hitting with a vengeance – the Moscow bourse has lost 60 per cent of its value since June. But the global slowdown a...
The Russian version of Esquire magazine has published a very interesting and extensive conversation between Mikhail Khodorkovsky and the writer Grigory Chkhartishvili – who is better known for his extremely popular fiction writing under the ...
Alexey Yablokov: “Not all greens have been able to find themselves a place on the vertical of power” Interview by Grigory Pasko, journalist Если Вы хотите прочитать оригинал данной статьи на русском языке, нажмите сюда. Alexey Yablokov...
Sometimes it seems like both policymakers and pundits yearn for the halcyon, clear-cut days of the Cold War … back when foreign policy and morality in trans-Atlantic relations had the ambiguity of a coin toss, and the whole world felt just o...
Jack Ewing at BusinessWeek argues that Russia’s deep ties in the German economy are inhibiting the government’s response to war in the Caucasus and other international issues with Moscow: The swift return to cordial relations was recog...
The communications department of the Kremlin honestly appears more modern than that of the United States lately (it seems to take the State Department a very long time to post a video of its press conferences). However it is notable that the presi...
I’ve exchanged comments with Andy over at the always excellent Siberian Light about the possible loan of more than $5.4 billion to bail out its rapidly failing banking sector. The question on everyone’s mind is whether or not such a la...
LUKoil, Rosneft, Gazprom and TNK-BP have asked the government to lend state money on market terms to help them expand their businesses abroad. Gazprom says it expects OPEC members to prevent another ‘substantial’ drop in the oil price. Lithuania m...
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