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November 15, 2007

Meat, Oil, Timber, and Air Transport

These are just some of the divisive economic issues that have stalled out EU-Russian relations, preventing a deepening of the partnership. A new analysis from Stratfor argues that despite rapidly growing trade between Russia and the EU, MoscowR...
November 15, 2007

Grigory Pasko: Russia’s Atomic Monster

The atomic monster and its resurrection By Grigory Pasko, journalist On 13 November, the State Duma considered in the third, and final, reading a draft law on the creation of the state corporation «Rosatom». It is to this organization that the sha...
November 15, 2007

Russia’s Doomsday Cult

According to reports, a cult of about 30 “simple Christians” have holed up in a cave to await the doomsday, which they believe is approaching next May, in Penza region of central Russia. Police have been dispatched to prevent anyone fr...
November 15, 2007

Kees Homan: Putin is testing Western resolve

Here’s a new think tank analysis from Maj. Gen. (ret.) Kees Homan MA, LL.M of the Clingendael Security and Conflict Programme: Putin is testing Western resolve It seems as if, quite suddenly, arms control is back on the international politic...
November 15, 2007

Holy Smokes!

For many first-time visitors to Russia, the first thing they notice is the rather dramatic difference in the number of people smoking. Just in time for World No Smoke Day, Rospotrebnadzor has released statistics that makes Russia the #1 smoking co...
November 15, 2007

RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – Nov. 15, 2007

People walk past an election poster of the main Kremlin-loyal party, United Russia, near Red Square in Moscow November 14, 2007. The Russian words read “for Putin” and is part of a slogan that runs “Moscow votes for Putin!”...
November 14, 2007

Watch the Wealth Run Away to Russia

Tom Friedman makes the case for the gas tax in the New York Times: You’d think that one person, just one, running for Congress or the Senate would take a flier and say: “Oh, what the heck. I’m going to lose anyway. Why not tell the truth? I’ll sup...
November 14, 2007

United Russia Drops in the Polls

Perhaps voters didn’t like the president’s preemptive claim of victory and “moral right” the other day. The latest poll shows that United Russia has slipped nine points, but still clings to a level of support that most part...
November 14, 2007

Organized Crime and the State in Russia

Popular fascination with the byzantine networks of Russian organized crime seem to be reaching new heights, as demonstrated by the popular film Eastern Promises, offering moviegoers an imagined peek into the smoky backrooms of elite London restaur...
November 14, 2007

Video: Yuri Bezmenov on Soviet Subversion

Here are some fun archival videos from Edward Griffin’s 1985 documentary featuring long interviews with KGB defector Yuri Bezmenov, who talks about the Soviet “strategy of subversion” of the free press in the West, the machinery ...