The 8th Circle is featuring a thoughtful personal essay by Annika M. Hinze, a PhD candidate at the University of Illinois at Chicago, who shares her experiences with how Germany’s opinions of the United States have changed over the years ...
‘Russia is seizing on record oil and natural gas prices to market its nuclear reactors abroad and plans to gain as much as 20% of the global market.’ The Energy Ministry expects Russian gas exports to Europe to rise by almost 38% by 2015, although...
Russia’s MICEX last week saw its biggest drop since 1999, falling 19.1%. Heavily hit by the crisis is real estate construction, ‘one of the fastest-growing segments of the economy over the past few years but also one of the most heavily dependent ...
TODAY: Switzerland to represent Russia in Georgia? NATO wants to draw up defense plan for Russia’s neighbours. Storchak sentenced; political and cultural figures call for Politkovskaya justice. Russia strengthening ties with Belarus; Israel concer...
The Moscow Times is running a piece tonight about critical statements made by the Council of Europe’s Committee for the Prevention of Torture regarding Russia’s treatment of prisoners. The former Yukos general counsel Vasily Alexanyan,...
This bit comes from Jeff Stein at SpyTalk … Robert Baer is the type to take seriously. Depressed by the market news? Try this for a quick pick-me-up: “An emerging alliance between Iran and Russia will lead to a stranglehold over Gulf 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 by his pen name Boris Akunin. Each day this week we ...
A miracle returns The Tsaritsyno Museum-estate reopens in Moscow after restoration Если Вы хотите прочитать оригинал данной статьи на русском языке, нажмите сюда. The restoration of the entire Tsaritsyno museum complex is not yet complete. But the...
Murray Feshbach of the Wilson Center had a strong article on Russia’s public health crisis in yesterday’s Washington Post. For a firsthand account of an adventure through Russian healthcare, our correspondent Grigory Pasko has more tha...
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