Russia

January 12, 2012

McFaul’s Russia Mission

Washington’s new ambassador to Russia, reset-architect Michal McFaul, was sworn in on Tuesday.  US-Russia relations have certainly taken a bit of a beating of late.  In December, Hillary Clinton faced verbal excoriation from Vladimir Putin f...
January 12, 2012

McFaul’s Russia Mission

Washington’s new ambassador to Russia, reset-architect Michal McFaul, was sworn in on Tuesday.  US-Russia relations have certainly taken a bit of a beating of late.  In December, Hillary Clinton faced verbal excoriation from Vladimir Putin f...
January 12, 2012

RA’s Daily Russian News Blast – Jan 12, 2012

TODAY: ECHR warns Russia on detainee treatment; British MP suggests ban on corrupt officials from Olympics; Prokhorov advocates evolution not revolution.  Vote rigging in Vladimir to be investigated; Kremlin to reduce freedom of assembly. Moscow o...
January 12, 2012

RA’s Daily Russian News Blast – Jan 12, 2012

TODAY: ECHR warns Russia on detainee treatment; British MP suggests ban on corrupt officials from Olympics; Prokhorov advocates evolution not revolution.  Vote rigging in Vladimir to be investigated; Kremlin to reduce freedom of assembly. Moscow o...
January 11, 2012

Red Light For Red Square Protests

Of late the Kremlin has shown an untypically lackadaisical attitude towards public marches, which, in months past, would have been swept away with draconian efficiency within a matter of moments by armed police officers.  It was noted that on Dece...
January 10, 2012

RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – Jan 10, 2012

TODAY: Udaltsov leads 200 in Moscow rally; pickets planned for jailed ex-opposition member; Voina cleared for car flipping action; Prokhorov enlists media heavyweight.  US disappointed on missile defense; Roscosmos hints at external interference w...
January 10, 2012

RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – Jan 10, 2012

TODAY: Udaltsov leads 200 in Moscow rally; pickets planned for jailed ex-opposition member; Voina cleared for car flipping action; Prokhorov enlists media heavyweight.  US disappointed on missile defense; Roscosmos hints at external interference w...
January 9, 2012

Putin’s Opposition – Political Patricide?

Amid the varying readings of the dissident mood currently sweeping through Russia, my attention was drawn today to a piece by Paul Starobin in the Boston Globe, who sees the current situation through the optic of the ‘family feud’ born...
January 9, 2012

Photo-Ops and Photo Shop

Stalin was known, amongst other predominantly murderous things, as a proponent of the political use of photo doctoring. We know this from the haunting gaps in Bolshevik-era photos in which a political rival once stood.  The idea of being erased fr...
January 9, 2012

RA’s Daily Russian News Blast – Jan 9, 2012

TODAY: Kirill urges leaders to acknowledge demands of protest movement; Kremlin uses Photoshop in attempt to discredit Navalny; internet as vector for financing anti-Kremlin groups; rally in Moscow attended by 100; judge claims torture.  Kremlin c...