The calm before the … what? Grigory Pasko, journalist Если Вы хотите прочитать оригинал данной статьи на русском языке, нажмите сюда. Usually, there is a calm before a storm. In the glass that is Russia’s turbid and muddy life, which the leadershi...
Ah, the delicate politics of official confirmation or denial – in a country where so many wantonly outrageous stories are leaked to the press, hearing the official comment during the morning briefing is often what separates news from libel l...
You may not have known it, but Russia has a unique ability to “drive the Anglo-American world mad.” Hmmm … not sure if that is how I would put it, but this is the point of departure in a recent talk given by David Speedie of the ...
Blogger Matt Stone at the Global Buzz speculates that Condoleezza Rice’s commentary on the Iranian missile (the photos of which appear to have been partially faked) during her visit to Georgia has drawn Tbilisi into the spat, with a double e...
Lawyer Peter Belk and Alexandros Petersen of CSIS have a new article in the IHT discussing Russia’s credibility problem as a member of the G8, and what can be done to solve it (actually, I believe the authors quote the Spider-Man movie: R...
Viktor Vekselberg, chairman of Russian investment company Renova Group and TNK-BP shareholders, wants a “peaceful solution” to the joint venture dispute over management and strategy, and has drawn up a “four-point peace proposal”. Depu...
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has approved a list of members for a government commission overseeing foreign investment in strategic sectors. “New limits on foreign investment in Russian companies will restrict non-Russians to no more than 5% of mi...
TODAY: Russia “upset” over US missile shield; is Medvedev changing his mind on Zimbabwe?; Rice in Georgia, rattling Russia; Moscow awaiting explanation from Britain on Litvinenko claims. Russia is “extremely upset” about the signing of...
There are quite a few reasons for people to be worried about the Russian government’s international internet activity. The most prominent example was of course the famously crippling “cyberwar” waged upon Estonia in the wake of t...
National Mirages Grigory Pasko, journalist When former president of Russia Vladimir Putin was singing the praises of the realization of the National Project for health care, only someone dense and lazy wouldn’t have had the thought this whole big ...
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