Matt Stone at The Global Buzz lists several reasons why an eventual rupture between Vladimir Putin and president-elect Dmitri Medvedev could lead to a genuine shift of power in Moscow: 1. Constitutionally and traditionally, the office of president...
Jeffrey Mankoff of the Council on Foreign Relations has published an op/ed in the Boston Globe outlining how the United States can take advantage of the transition to Dmitri Medvedev to improve relations with Moscow – an argument that I expe...
Gazprom promised western European countries they would not be affected by the latest escalation in its ongoing row with Ukraine, as it cut supplies to the country by 25%. The company RosUkrEnergo said Gazprom’s decision to reduce gas supplies by 2...
Plans by Rostekhnologii to consolidate state-controlled stakes in nearly 250 enterprises have been opposed by First Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov. Norilsk Nickel, the Russian nickel producer at the centre of a takeover battle, is the first t...
TODAY: Opposition protesters detained; pro-Medvedev march permitted. Monitors concede that Medvedev would have “won anyway.” World leaders comment on the result. Moscow authorities have “repeatedly refused to authorize opposition marches on the gr...
Peter Finn of the Washington Post was answering questions from readers online earlier today, and fielded this one on the new administration’s policy toward the Khodorkovsky case: Harrogate, U.K.: The British Sunday Times reports that preside...
It is a sorry state of affairs when only one of the three leading U.S. presidential candidates issues a statement on the controversial Russian elections. After the jump is Sen. Hillary Clinton’s press release. Sen. Barack Obama has only brie...
Perhaps the worst part of the complacency with which the world has tolerated the Russia’s election farce is that many other authoritarian nations will take this as precedent – an understanding that skillful manipulation of democratic p...
Michael Idov of the New Republic had a hard time finding anyone who had actually voted in the Russian presidential election, apart from those who attended the polls for free food and prizes. Others he spoke with voted for Zyuganov simply because t...
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