[Our correspondent in Russia recently discovered that the border town of Vyborg near St. Petersburg was going to hold discreet (practically secret) public hearings on Gazprom’s mega-project, the Nord Stream pipeline, to discuss the social an...
We were surprised to see a tremendous amount of interest in our recent post about the acquisition of LiveJournal, the most popular blogging platform in Russia, by a Kremlin loyalist. While we focused on the privacy and censorship concerns posed by...
In yesterday’s WSJ, Michael McFaul writes about Putin’s plan: “The weakening of these three political institutions follows a strategy of deinstitutionalization that Vladimir Putin has implemented since the very beginning of his p...
Members of the pro-Kremlin movement Nashi protest against British ambassador to Russia, Anthony Brenton, seen in banner at left, outside the British Embassy in Moscow, Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2007. Nashi claim that the United Kingdom was sponsoring opp...
Although this information from Stanislav Belkovsky is not new, I did not want to let it slip through the cracks. Anders Aslund picked up the quote from the German press: “In a sensational interview in Germany’s Die Welt on Nov. 12, Stanislav...
Here’s a general backgrounder news clip on the Russian (s)elections by France 24. There’s nothing in here any regular reader of this blog wouldn’t already know, but some of the footage and interviews are interesting.
Edward Hugh has a very interesting and informative blog post over at FoE entitled “Too Much Money Chasing Too Few People, Or Russia’s Current Inflation Problem” which argues that the sudden acceleration in inflation in the region is ne...
[See Part 1 of Pasko’s interview with the former FSB officer and newly freed political prisoner, Mikhail Trepashkin.] Mikhail Trepashkin Freed – Part 2 By Grigory Pasko, journalist In an exclusive interview with Grigory Pasko, former p...
Was the election of Andrei Lugovoi to the Duma on the LDPR ticket a spit in the face of the United Kingdom, which has been seeking his extradition for the murder the Alexander Litvinenko? In response to this question, the plucky (and newly immune ...
Oleg Shvartsman’s now infamous interview with Kommersant (full translation here), in which he pulled back the curtain on the functioning of the Russian government’s velvet reprivatization, is causing some major blowback. Today the Mosc...
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