TODAY: International law society condemns Russia’s treatment of lawyers; Federation wants Georgia’s UN case thrown out; EU and US increasingly wary of growing Russia; Lavrov says peace deals are out of sync; young art collectors being encouraged; ...
As investors worry amidst a near-global economic recession, the Russian government needs to be forthcoming about its actions in order to boost confidence in their market, imprisoned businessman Mikhail Khodorkovsky told The Moscow Times today. The...
A reader forwarded us an article from the German press, recommending that it could be interesting for translation. Below is the full text of this recent piece on the propaganda war between Georgia and Russia from the Süddeutsche Zeitung (original ...
“Saakashvili is a puppet, while Europe is dependent on us…” What Russian people think about the Georgian-Russian conflict Grigory Pasko, journalist Если Вы хотите прочитать оригинал данной статьи на русском языке, нажмите сюда. Ivan Mi...
Speaking as a guy who plows through hundreds of news stories about Russia every week, it was refreshing to see this interesting New York Times piece about Russia’s tobacco culture (a staggering 50% of Russians are smokers) and the difficulti...
Yulia Latynina has a brilliantly sarcastic column in the Moscow Times today, which highlights the incongruity of Russia’s fervent anti-Westernism combined with deep appreciation for its material goods, services, banks, and institutions. I gu...
That’s what David Ignatius of the Washington Post thinks: The Georgia strategy is premised on working jointly with European allies and on avoiding the sort of unilateral U.S. military threats that would scare them off. It is also tempered by...
The Los Angeles Times has an interesting piece about the testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee by Daniel Fried and Eric Edelman, debating the U.S. response to the Russian invasion of Georgia. While Democratic Senators are criticizin...
Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin has called for greater cooperation between Russia and Opec, which would increase Opec’s market power. Opec will make a “symbolic” reduction in oil output because it views the market as oversupplied. TNK-BP intends...
The exodus of an estimated $20 billion worth of foreign capital is forcing Russian banks to cut down on lending. “Russia is open for business,” says the Kremlin’s Chief Economic Aide. There may be worries about the EU’s energy dependence on ...
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