From Garry Kasparov in the Wall Street Journal: I used to compare our vanishing democracy to that of countries like Venezuela and Zimbabwe. But events have shown how wrong I was to make such comparisons – and how unfair I was being to Hugo Chávez ...
Interesting interview over at CFR today with Elizabeth Fuller of Radio Liberty/Radio Free Europe, which takes a look at how Moscow can reconcile support for Georgia’s breakaway regions while managing separatist tensions within its own territ...
It seems like a cruel paradox that the same week in which the Russian government called for stricter media laws, allowing them to shut down a publication for printing libel, that billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov announces the launch of Snob Magazine,...
Nicholas Eberstadt of AEI and Hans Groth of Pfizer have a column about Russia’s demographic crisis in today’s Wall Street Journal – and it appears that it is going to take more than giving away prizes of SUVs to pregnant women to...
This strongly worded letter to the Washington Post brings back the civilization-vs.-barbarism trope back into the Russia debate. We think this reader takes it too far, but can understand the frustrations of authoritarianism and the lies we are tol...
Alfa Group,Access Industries and Renova (AAR), the Russian shareholders of TNK-BP, have denied that they will sell their stake in the company. “Speculation and rumors of a planned sale by AAR of its stake in TNK-BP are groundless and have no basis...
Oleg Deripaska, owner of Russian aluminium producer United Company Rusal, has successfully bought a 25% stake in Norilsk Nickel from Mikhail Prokhorov, its co-owner. It is thought that Prokhorov will receive a 14% stake in return. The deal is said...
TODAY: Russia-EU talks mandate: still no agreement; A Just Russia to hold annual congress; “PR battle” relations with Georgia worsen; the demographic trend of depopulation. Also: Japan, Iran, Prokhorov, Ukraine. Talks in Brussels have failed to re...
Not according to Anders Aslund. Corruption is becoming such a problem, that public outrage could potentially reach a tipping point. Over the past eight years three major factors have defined the state of affairs in Russia. First, the country’...
To provide the best experiences, we use technologies like cookies to store and/or access device information. Consenting to these technologies will allow us to process data such as browsing behavior or unique IDs on this site. Not consenting or withdrawing consent, may adversely affect certain features and functions.
Functional
Always active
The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network.
Preferences
The technical storage or access is necessary for the legitimate purpose of storing preferences that are not requested by the subscriber or user.
Statistics
The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for statistical purposes.The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for anonymous statistical purposes. Without a subpoena, voluntary compliance on the part of your Internet Service Provider, or additional records from a third party, information stored or retrieved for this purpose alone cannot usually be used to identify you.
Marketing
The technical storage or access is required to create user profiles to send advertising, or to track the user on a website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes.
