Vladimir Putin’s love of judo has apparently landed him a starring role in an instructional DVD. The BBC today is running a story about Vladimir Putin’s forthcoming appearance alongside an Olympic champion. They write: “Russia’s judo-loving ...
Billionaire Suleiman Kerimov is seeking to buy the 7.4% stake in Polyus Gold, Russia’s biggest producer of the metal, jointly held by former partners Mikhail Prokhorov and Vladimir Potanin. As predicted, Oleg Deripaska’s United Company...
Today: Gunvor denies links with Putin; Fifth State Duma opens; Medvedev to begin presidential campaigning; Zubkov initiates wage hike for public sector; Khodorkovsky lawyers apply for case dismissal; corruption; Badri Patarkatsishvili assassinatio...
Here’s a Reuters news clip on Russia’s art loan fiasco with the United Kingdom, which this weekend was unexpectedly reversed. Matisse lovers in London can breathe a sigh of relief.
Writing on Japan Focus, M K Bhadrakumar points out the patently clear quid pro quo going on between Russia and Iran in energy and geopolitics. Extensive high quality analysis after the cut. In fact, how Moscow proceeds with the reconfiguration of ...
You’d never say that the Kremlin doesn’t know how to win friends and influence people, as this latest nuclear gesture toward Delhi indicates: Russia’s willingness to sign a nuclear agreement with India, without waiting for internationa...
Outdoing even Russia, the authoritarian Central Asian country of Uzbekistan seem to have no problem ignoring its constitution when it comes to keeping the top boss in office: two-time president Islam Karimov, who has had both his terms in office e...
A timely paper by Stanford University professors Michael McFaul and Kathryn Stoner-Weiss has just been published in the January/February 2008 edition of Foreign Affairs. The article’s title says it all: “The Myth of the Authoritarian Model: How Pu...
Ahmadinejad is Better than Putin By the Polittechnologist It being Christmastime, I would have liked to write about something pleasant. For example, about good people. Today, I’ve got three candidates – Hitler, Putin, and the current president of ...
Yesterday I had an interview with the journalist Andrey Novikov, who since last February has been held against his will in psychiatric confinement on a spurious charge of “publicly inciting constitutional change by means of force.” Pre...
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