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November 30, 2012

RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – Nov 29, 2012

TODAY: Pussy Riot video to be banned; posthumous charged filed against Magnitsky; Perepilichnyy had been warned he was on hit list; Kopeysk prison strike highlights abuse of prisoners; planes beating trains.  A Moscow City Court has declared that ...
November 29, 2012

RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – Nov 29, 2012

TODAY: Toxicology reports in Magnitsky-related death awaited, Medvedev slams Magnitsky List; new fraud claims against former ministers; HIV cases on the rise; MegaFon IPO at bottom of range; Lukashenko fuels Putin injury rumours. Detectives are st...
November 29, 2012

RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – Nov 29, 2012

TODAY: Toxicology reports in Magnitsky-related death awaited, Medvedev slams Magnitsky List; new fraud claims against former ministers; HIV cases on the rise; MegaFon IPO at bottom of range; Lukashenko fuels Putin injury rumours. Detectives are st...
November 28, 2012

RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – Nov 28, 2012

TODAY: Supergrass in Magnitsky case found dead in U.K.; Mityaev fears fate in pretrial detention; Latynina on Malofeyev; Russian billionaires and Britain’s offshore tax havens; Medvedev signs cooperation agreement in France, promises not to conver...
November 27, 2012

Russia’s Conspiracy Theories over the Magnitsky Act

A good piece from Peter Rutland in the Moscow Times points out that for all the bitterness and wild conspiracy theories Russian pundits are throwing at the Magnitsky Act, there really isn’t any good reason for the US to do it besides human r...
November 27, 2012

Japan’s Misplaced Nationalism

Prof. Joseph Nye is not just an interesting guy because of that whole “soft power” thing he pioneered, but because when he talks about Asia, we are treated to a glimpse of insider thinking in Washington, given the broad, informal manda...
November 27, 2012

Japan’s Misplaced Nationalism

Prof. Joseph Nye is not just an interesting guy because of that whole “soft power” thing he pioneered, but because when he talks about Asia, we are treated to a glimpse of insider thinking in Washington, given the broad, informal manda...
November 27, 2012

RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – Nov 27, 2012

TODAY: Putin protester to stay behind bars despite ailment; Kashin loses post; prison riot spurs calls for reform; Gazprom secures deal with Turkey; Russia seeking Internet control; Medvedev on bad driving, hooligans, Syria, and Pussy Riot; group ...
November 27, 2012

RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – Nov 27, 2012

TODAY: Putin protester to stay behind bars despite ailment; Kashin loses post; prison riot spurs calls for reform; Gazprom secures deal with Turkey; Russia seeking Internet control; Medvedev on bad driving, hooligans, Syria, and Pussy Riot; group ...
November 26, 2012

Putin’s Third Term Doctrine

Anna Nemtsov has a pretty good broad summary of the agenda currently being advanced under Vladimir Putin in these early days of his third term.  From Newsweek / Daily Beast: The goal: to restore the glory of Russia the only way Putin seems to know...