Today: Medvedev offers Putin a new job; Russia wants almost all operations of the British Council to be shut down; the OSCE urges Russia to reconsider its freezing of the CFE Treaty; Putin says “no state capitalism”. The biggest story in the UK to...
An editorial in today’s New York Times makes the familiar point that Dmitri Medvedev is relatively weak within the administration, and does not possess an independent base of power outside of Putin’s favor. The newspaper argues that on...
Below is the full documentary film “Disbelief” by Andrei Nekrasov, who below penned a column for this blog. The film, which debuted in 2004, presents a theory of the 1999 apartment bombings.
[We are pleased to feature this exclusive special guest column from the Russian filmmaker Andrei Nekrasov, the director and producer of “Rebellion, The Litvinenko Case” (which premiered at this year’s Cannes film festival), ̶...
Out of all the various British businesses and institutions that the Russian government could harass and expel from the country, isn’t it odd that they have chosen a harmless group of English teachers? We first reported on the attempts to exp...
This is one of several opinion pieces I’ve seen about Operation Successor remarking on the economic difficulties expected ahead. David Hearst writes in the Guardian’s Comment is Free: What is brushed aside by such sweeping calculations...
Below is an animated short film telling the story of Mikhail Khodorkovsky’s illegal arrest and imprisonment. It’s part of a campaign to gather signatures for a petition for his release. Please visit asiberiantale.com to show your support.
Two interesting articles on Russia were just posted to the FT, the first from Paul Betts, the second from Neil Buckley and Catherine Belton excerpted after the jump. From Paul Betts: A large part of the problem is Russia’s continued poor reputatio...
Just a trifle, but still unpleasant By Grigory Pasko, journalist I’ve got the compulsory medical insurance policy of a citizen of the Russian Federation. According to this piece of paper, I have guarantees of receiving medical aid at medical insti...
File this one under arts & culture. From the New York Times: Let us consider Daniil Kharms, the Russian writer often described as an absurdist, largely unpublished in his lifetime except for his children’s books, who starved to death in the p...
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