Vladimir Socor at Eurasia Daily Monitor has an article on Russia’s perspective on the upcoming partnership and cooperation agreement (PCA) that Moscow and the European Union are looking to negotiate beginning this summer. I believe that the ...
Neil Buckley of the Financial Times has a great article on the state of Russia’s state-dominated television news – where propaganda has become more subtle, glitzy, and effective: Three unwritten rules seem to apply to the editors’ appr...
This comes from an interesting Moscow Times column by Andrei Piontkovsky: But Moscow’s self-destructive confrontation with the West can be halted, and its centuries-old debate between Westernizers and the Slavophiles can be put to rest once ...
Dmitry Medvedev is beginning to outline some specifics of his anti-corruption policies. Note the important mention of transferring powers back to the regions. Mr. Medvedev said the plan includes tougher criminal punishment for corrupt officials an...
Here’s an interesting letter to the editor of the Financial Times Sir, You write that BP will soon risk losing its grip on TNK-BP, its Russian joint venture (“Moscow axes TNK-BP visas“, July 1). It should be clear by now that in ...
I usually don’t bother posting videos from the government-run news/pr outlet Russia Today (they tend to have a certain slant), but honestly it becomes hard to avoid with the amount of content with which they flood the internet. Bearing this ...
Kommersant is carrying two reports on the Mikhail Khodorkovsky charges today. The first article reports that the Investigative Committee has quickly completed a three-day preliminary investigation of the case. The second piece interviews former Pr...
Dmitry Medvedev plans to “lock up rights” to ship natural gas from Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan. “It’s Putin’s plan that all the gas from this part of the world should be sold by Gazprom,” said one analyst. TNK-B...
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has “radically” cut the number of international organizations that receive tax breaks in exchange for giving grants in Russia, causing both the World Wildlife Fund and the Red Cross to lose their tax advantages. AvtoV...
TODAY: Medvedev interviews dominate the press, covering corruption, relations with the US and UK, and the presidential system; think-tank chaired by Medvedev says that anti-corruption plan is “not new politics”; Duma to intervene on children’s “mo...
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