The death of Alexander Solzhenitsyn in Moscow this weekend, aged 89, has created a media sensation, with most major newspaper running two or three stories on the author and dissident. Solzhenitsyn was a Nobel literature prize winner, whose first s...
Over the weekend, the Financial Times ran a piece by Stefan Wagstyl on Russia’s economic situation that focuses on the contradiction of “serious weaknesses” at work behind the external image of its booming economy. The article may help to balance ...
Shell (which has just reported profits of $4 million an hour) is considering a £1bn asset swap with Sibir Energy, its joint partner in the Salym oilfields venture in western Siberia, in order to “remain in the Kremlin’s good books”. London-listed ...
Russia: “Everything is for sale.” The Telegraph argues that the influence of Russian businessmen and billionaires in London is underestimated. Pirelli and Rostekhnologhii have reached an agreement to build a tyre plant at Togliatti in Russia. Russ...
TODAY: Alexander Solzhenitsyn, author of The Gulag Archipelago, dies in Moscow; Yabloko party criticizes psychiatric repressions; Nevzlin given life sentence; Russians increasingly opposed to single-party system; violence in South Ossetia kills 6;...
This one comes from the Associated Press – and it doesn’t seem clear whether this posthumous smear attack against Nikita Khrushchev is motivated by the nationalist’s nostalgic reinvention of Stalin, or the outspoken nature of the...
So many new millionaires in Russia, but where to put them? A new series of luxury housing developments and gated communities out in the regions, often pushed forward with aggressive tactics and intimidation of local population, is raising a whole ...
The chekists’ latest act of valor Grigory Pasko, journalist Recently, the director of the FSB of Russia, General of the Army Alexander Bortnikov, congratulated young officers with the completion of studies at the FSB academy and called upon them t...
There’s an interesting one in the FT by Charles Clover (is this guy new?) taking a look at Dmitry Medvedev’s successful press conference in Gagarin, where he continues to work to establish his own public persona outside that of Vladimi...
Below is a five-part French documentary (with subtitles) on Alexander Litvinenko. Even you think you have read, seen, and heard enough about this story, several of these interviews are still very interesting and informative.
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