It is particularly illustrative (no pun intended) of how the Western media views the nomination of Dmitri Medvedev to look at the various graphic arts work published along with the articles. Two of the more amusing are below, from the New York Tim...
Yesterday an Other Russia activist, the 20-year-old Artem Basyrov, was committed to a psychiatric hospital against his will – another startling example of how the Soviet-era practice of punitive psychiatry is making a comeback. Other example...
Here’s a news clip looking into how Russia’s oil boom and new class of aristocracy is helping bring back some of the nation’s most treasured and valuable pieces of art and cultural patrimony. Find more videos like this on www.tru...
What’s behind the Kremlin’s deep-seated suspicion of the West? The BBC’s Rupert Wingfield Hayes takes a trip to Russia and finds himself quite unwelcome, and also quite unable to find his way around. His column is annoyingly anti...
No big surprise here, but the Russian Communists have officially selected Gennady Zyuganov to run for the presidency on the party ticket. It is particularly illustrative of how Russia has changed that the only tolerated political opposition are Zy...
[The last time we heard from Dr. Chee Soon Juan, the leader of Singapore’s opposition party (SDP), he penned a column for this blog on the comparative authoritarian capitalist systems of Russia and Singapore. Since then, I’ve seen this...
It seems like there have been a lot of stories recently about the marriage of Russia’s emerging political culture and style. First there was that story of the oxymoronic $2,000 Communist-style coats, men and fur (“It makes me feel like a sex...
From Anders Aslund in the Moscow Times: “The fundamental point is that we have no idea what Putin is going to do because he does not want us to know — and because he enjoys dictatorial powers. The good news is that by overplaying his h...
One wears “sartorial” black turtlenecks, the other prefers bright stripy alpaca wool sweaters – even at diplomatic meetings. Yet Vladimir Putin and Bolivian President Evo Morales, both of whom have seen their presidencies enormou...
Andrei Illarionov doesn’t think that Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is really helping matters in Russia when she offers her endorsement of Vladimir Putin’s selected candidate. Writing in the Washington Post today, he reasonably as...
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