Sergei Guriev, the respected economist from Moscow’s New Economic School who was forced into exile last year, has published a new article in the Financial Times examining the relationship between Russia’s pervasive corruption and Presi...
Today Russian President Vladimir Putin delivered a speech advising lawmakers to approve the annexation of Crimea following Sunday’s referendum. The speech included extended and detailed commentary on history, Putin’s perceived hypocris...
Is this a new Cold War? Is this a rational decision on behalf of Putin to reinforce Russia's security? Or is it more a matter of domestic political survival as the driving motivation behind the seizure of Crimea?
Fascinating story by Eli Lake in the Daily Beast today generating a lot of conversation. According to the latest Foreign Agent Registration Act forms filed at the Justice Department, Ketchum billed Moscow for $1.5 million for the second half of 2...
I know I am a few days behind in posting about this, but Gregory Feifer’s latest column in Politico on the repeated failure on behalf of the West to grasp the internal logic of Vladimir Putin’s Russia is well worth a read. An excerpt:...
I don’t endorse any particular theory here, but it’s an interesting take. A translation of Andrei Illarionov’s theories behind the release of Mikhail Khodorkovsky. Original source: Rufabula.com. Russian President Vladimir Putin ...
It seems that this is not a public moment capped off with a dramatic speech, but a private moment, celebrated among a beloved and treasured family he has not seen in a decade.
When I started this blog back in September of 2006, things were pretty different then in Russia. It was about a year after I had been expelled from Russia under vague threat of arrest, back when most of us who were vocally opposed to the policies...
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