Among the dozens of opinion articles and editorials on the Russian elections this weekend, I would say that the Times of London takes home the prize for capturing the story with the best headline: “Putinocracy: Russia has thrived despite its...
Robert Amsterdam is briefly quoted in the election coverage by Canada’s CTV: Russia’s election outcome hardly in doubt Josh Visser, CTV.ca News The votes in the Russian presidential election this Sunday have yet to be tallied, but it&#...
Dan Rather has a new column this weekend expressing his disappointment with the level of debate on Russia policy among U.S. presidential candidates. He writes: “As for the past, both Clinton and Obama criticized what they perceived as the dr...
The Washington Post has an editorial today which strongly opposes a recent decision by the Belgian Olympic Committee to expressly forbid its athletes from making political statements in Olympic venues. Britain and New Zealand also appear to be muz...
Dr. Fraser Cameron of the EU-Russia Centre has a new opinion article in European Voice which takes a critical look at the legacy of Putinism, focusing especially on the tragic failure of the administration to take advantage of record high energy p...
Way back in May, I blogged about what could be learned about Operation Successor from the speculative futures market trading on the gambling site Trade Sports, where users could buy and sell the political futures of individuals such as Dmitri Medv...
An opinion piece on Dmitry Medvedev, written by popular Russian author Victor Erofeyev, has appeared in today’s New York Times. With so much negative attention from the Western press focused on Sunday’s presidential elections, it is surprising to ...
Today’s newspapers are full of speculation about Sunday’s presidential elections and the dynamics of the future roles of Dmitry Medvedev and Vladimir Putin following them. Much of the attention is focusing on voter turnout, with low nu...
Dmitry Medvedev turned Gazprom, “a Soviet-era industrial basket case that made $670 million in 1998 into one of the world’s biggest industrial concerns, with profits reaching $25 billion last year. Gazprom is far more than a mere energy prov...
Read an in-depth report on Russia’s economy from The Economist here. Russia’s central bank has announced that it is suffering “not insignificant” losses as a holder of securities in US home finance firms. Finnish utility Fortum has committed...
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