Today: Russian-British relations worsen; Zhirinovsky to run for president; pharmaceutical deal could fall through due to nationalization fears; Nord Stream to hike project costs on key pipeline; Russia-US deadlock over missile defense continues. R...
Check it out – a new video segment from Victoria Gamburg reporting from the streets of St. Petersburg around the time of the parliamentary elections. These videos are a teaser from a longer feature which will run on TV on February 26 before ...
Blogging about the life-threatening transactions behind LiveJournal over at the Other Russia blog, Sergei Petrunin observes: If in the West the majority of blogs are something like electronic diaries along the lines of “I woke up at seven in the m...
While reviewing some of the coverage announcing Garry Kasparov‘s withdrawal from the presidential race, I noticed the following paragraph in the AP story, which left me speechless:
David Satter has a great opinion column in the Wall Street Journal today: “Sharing power with another leader is not in Russia’s tradition, however, and given the conditions that exist in the country today, the lack of clear lines of au...
From Michael McFaul in the Moscow Times: By committing to stepping down as president by naming a successor, Putin has taken a small but important step toward democratization. Since December 1993, political forces of all ideological persuasions hav...
From the Asia Times: Apropos the “correlation of forces” (to use Marxian idiom) in the international arena, Putin has made a big statement. He has shrewdly estimated that Washington is doing all it can to mend fences with Beijing so as...
Today: Lavrov clarifies British Council move; Kasparov steps down from presidential race; Poland could lift EU-Russia veto; news that Russia and Belarus are in talks to unite is met by protests; hopes of re-writing the CFE Treaty; Rostov bird flu ...
Question: how does one cautiously express praise and approval, while at the same time scolding and criticizing? Answer: Condi Rice. Here’s an excerpt about Russia from the transcript her talk with a USA Today Editorial Board Roundtable: QUES...
Today Anders Aslund has an interesting piece in the Washington Post looking into Geneva-based billionaire Gennady Timchenko, Igor Sechin, Oleg Shvartsman, and the rumors behind Vladimir Putin’s $40 billion of shares in companies Surgutnefteg...
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