Nothing but Pig Snouts All Around By Grigory Pasko, journalist Let me say right from the start: that title isn’t mine. It’s not even Russian author Nikolai Gogol’s: in his «The Inspector-General», this is but a phrase by police chief in the final ...
The following it an exclusive translation from News.ru: OMON in Moscow did not let “Dissenters’ March” unfold. Politicians and human rights advocates detained Several dozen persons were detained during the course of the opposition action “Dissente...
Writing in the New Republic, Alvaro Vargas Llosa of the Independent Institute points out the irony in the fact that the only way for Dmitri Medvedev to break free of Vladimir Putin’s grip in order to implement his liberal reforms would be to...
As expected, Opec rolled over its oil-production quotas at its meeting in Vienna today. With oil futures trading at over $100 a barrel, consuming countries such as the US had lobbied the producer group to release more oil onto the market. That, th...
Germany and central Europe were “bracing themselves” for cuts in gas supplies after Gazprom halved gas supplies to Ukraine. President Dmitry Medvedev has personally asked Ukrainian leader Viktor Yushchenko to settle the country’s gas debt to Mosco...
NYMEX could ultimately be crossed off the list of international oil exchange arrangers in St. Petersburg, following a meeting convened by Prime Minister Viktor Zubkov, which focused on creating an oil exchange fully owned by Russia. The head of Ru...
TODAY: World responses to the Presidency of Dmitry Medvedev. Angela Merkel to be Medvedev’s first foreign meeting. Yabloko head on hunger strike in jail. Maxim Reznik, a Russian opposition activist and member of the Yabloko party, jailed for two m...
CNN’s special series on “Ruling Russia” by Matthew Chance. See more after the jump. DAXUREvcKREMLIN has a real treasure trove of Russia-related videos.
Gary Shteyngart, the Russian-American author of the comic novels “The Russian Debuntante’s Handbook” and “Absurdistan” (and a personal favorite of mine) was recently interviewed about current events in Russia by La Va...
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