TODAY: British Council shuts two of its offices indefinitely and the director of its St Petersburg office is detained. Medvedev a liberal? Putin heads to Bulgaria to cement energy pipeline deals. Yukos executive accuses jailers of blackmail. Russi...
BBC News has reported that with many of France’s major media outlets owned by President Nicolas Sarkozy’s close friends, publicly criticizing Sarkozy is not easy. Fears have arisen that the freedom of the French press is now being stifled. L...
Craig Pirrong has another great article today about Gazprom’s move to take over Serbia’s state energy monopoly, NIS. The good professor writes the following: “To make the deal look a little less like an abject surrender, Gazprom ...
Nord Stream på Svenska (notes from Stockholm) By Grigory Pasko, journalist The Russian tsar Peter the Great, as he hewed out his “Window on Europe” through the putrid marshes of St. Petersburg, was thinking: “from here we shall threaten the Swede”...
There are certain parties, Vladimir Putin and Gerhard Schröder among them, who would like to see the trans-Atlantic alliance between the United States and the European Union dismantled and shattered. Unfortunately, it looks like the U.S. Secretary...
I thought after yesterday’s post about the British Council dispute, I could safely leave the issue alone (our first post on the topic dates back to June 14, 2007). But then again, I didn’t expect the Russians to start making arrests. T...
Dr. Andreas Umland, one of those guys who manages to inspire vitriol as both an apologist and a russophobe, and a column running in the National Interest about anti-Americanism in Russia and how a new Cold War could come about. We happen to disagr...
The Streetwise Professor has put up a new interesting blog post, including a kind mention of this blog, about something that both Vladimir Putin and Joseph Stalin share – an enduring popularity in the face of repeated mistakes: It is only fi...
TODAY: Medvedev’s strength is Putin? The British Council drama continues. Georgian elections; Bukovsky will not be permitted to run for President; Zubkov speaks about gas safety; Polish President warns against drive to improve relations with Russi...
Sistema, the holding company of billionaire Vladimir Yevtushenkov, announced that its Indian subsidiary, Shyam Telelink, has obtained a pan-India telecom license, a deal that analysts say will strengthen Sistema’s foothold in India. A specia...
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