This news clip from NBC explores the Stalin-era nuclear bunkers built 18 stories under the streets of Moscow, which since passing into private ownership in an auction are used for tourism (where visitors can simulate the ordering of missile attack...
Joshua Keating often does some great blogging about Russia over at FP Passport. His column today summarizing a number of simmering tensions (the Georgia-Abkhazia escalations to the Czech missile shield deal) underscoring Russia’s meetings on...
The biggest Russia news of the day comes not from the G8 meeting in Japan but rather from the BBC, which is reporting to have interviewed “a senior security official” from Whitehall about the murder by poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko...
Last week we published a translation of a front page article from French newspaper Le Monde regarding the recycling of charges against Mikhail Khodorkovsky. Below is an editorial note which followed the next day, which makes a flattering mention o...
We’re all quite familiar with Igor Sechin, chairman of Rosneft, Deputy Prime Minister, and silovik extraordinaire, but few would describe him as a maven of open competition in Russia’s energy sector. Yet that is exactly what he appears...
TNK-BP’s Russian shareholders, AAR, failed to have the firm’s CEO, Robert Dudley, dismissed, but signaled that they will continue to try to oust him. BP rejected claims that it had treated its Russian partners as “subjects, not equals&...
At the G8 summit, Dmitry Medvedev said that the global financial system is outdated. United Airlines has postponed opening a route to Russia from the United States by six months due to high jet fuel prices. Norilsk Nickel‘s recently elected ...
TODAY: UK security officers say Litvinenko murder was backed by Russian state; blogger given suspended sentence; Medvedev’s meeting with UK’s Gordon Brown leaves relations “in the deep freeze”, and “no particular progress” with the US; Russia and ...
Upon reading Mikhail Fridman’s plaintive comment piece in the Financial Times today, I have to say that I find myself in support of his position – not necessarily the handling of the affair nor the use the state’s bureaucratic in...
VOA has an interesting book review of “Of Spies and Spokesmen: My Life As a Cold War Correspondent” by Nicholas Daniloff, a journalist who at one point was imprisoned by the KGB. Nicholas Daniloff says that, although both sides know mo...
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