From the Washington Post, “Reporting Against the Odds“: IT WAS NO surprise when authorities shut another independent newspaper in Vladimir Putin’s Russia this month, but the pretext was particularly illustrative of the cynicism o...
Today Germany’s largest-circulation news magazine Stern has published a by-lined article by Robert Amsterdam analyzing the Kremlin’s capture of the Social Democratic Party (SPD). Full English translation after the cut.
President Vladimir Putin, center, meeting Russian Orthodox Church top priests in the Moscow Kremlin on Monday, Nov. 19, 2007, with Russian Orthodox Patriarch Alexy II. (AP Photo/Pool) Konstantin Kosachyov, head of the Duma’s international affairs ...
It’s not a very good week for German corporate social responsibility, as the Nigerian government has opened up a probe into an alleged 12 billion euros in bribes handed out by the industrial conglomerate Siemens to officials in Nigeria, Liby...
[Editor’s introduction: Our Russia correspondent, the journalist Grigory Pasko, recently went on assignment to Sochi, the Black Sea resort city that has been slated to host the 2014 Olympic Winter Games. Sochi, which has always been a favori...
AEI’s Leon Aron has published a long interesting a review of the book “For Prophet and Tsar: Islam and Empire in Russia and Central Asia” in the New Republic this month: Poskrebi russikogo i naydyosh tatarina: scratch a Russian a...
He was arrested last Friday, but no one really knew why. Today it’s reported that Deputy Finance Minister Sergei Storchak is suspected of embezzling $43 million in state funds. A statement from the Prosecutor General’s Office (who can ...
Activists of the youth wing of the People’s Democratic Union, an opposition group of ex-Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov, hold portraits of Russia’s President Vladimir Putin during a protest in Moscow November 17, 2007. The activists we...
Today’s news on the brazenly harsh deadline set in the Khodorovsky case speaks for itself – the prosecutors aren’t even pretending to play by the rules any more. Both Khodorkovsky and Lebedev are now both under the gun: they have about 36 days to ...
Sakhalin blogger Tim Newman has the following to say about Exxon Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson, the lion of the energy sector: Amongst all the talk about peak oil, increased energy demand, dwindling hydrocarbon reserves, and dependence on unstable regim...
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