Can we please get something clear here? There are two ongoing political narratives in Russia today. The first, a narrative put forward by the likes of Steinmeier, Schröder, Gadhafi, Sarkozy and other United Russia apologists, talks about the only ...
If I put my mind to it, I could easily draw up quite a long list of reporters and activists in Russia whom the siloviki would prefer to see exiled from the country, or worse (not to give anyone ideas…). So why, out of everyone, has the Kreml...
Populism as a political concept is notoriously difficult to pin down, and is exceptionally prone to misuse. It describes neither policy nor ideology, but is rather best captured by the argument that populism above all constitutes a individualist &...
This one is quite peculiar. Over at the advertising industry blog Adrants there’s a post about an campaign for the violent video game “Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare” which uses “real-life warmongers” posing as review...
Today’s news that the national champion hailing from my native Canada is pulling out of its $3.5 billion Baltic LNG project with Gazprom on the Yamal Peninsula offers a reminder of the perils of the energy business in Russia. According to CE...
This evening I am pleased to share the company of the Russia analyst Mr. David Satter, a colleague whose work I highly respect. During our conversation tonight, David mentioned that he had a new piece coming out in the Weekly Standard today, so I ...
Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld, director of the American Center for Democracy, has a devastating new piece about the Kremlin’s business activities in Human Events: On June 2, 2006 proposing that Russia should retain control over strategic companies, a...
Today: Putin could become leader of new state; Bukovsky and Zyuganov to run for the presidency; Gazprom raises prices; Moldovan journalist barred from entering Russia; Medvedka vodka? Kremlin sources say Vladimir Putin could still accept the Russi...
Investigative journalist Natalia Morar of the New Times magazine, who had published muckraking articles about the falsification of election results and graft by high ranking government officials, has been expelled from the Russian Federation to Mo...
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