Barring some remarkable turn of events, in about 14 months the first Medvedev presidency will come to an unremarkable conclusion. Perhaps sensing the ticking clock, and eager to leave his signature on at least one successful item of public p...
Edward Lucas has a striking criticism of a new book on Russia’s economic revival by Daniel Treisman published in the Wall Street Journal. I haven’t yet read Treisman’s book, but judging from his recent co-authored essay in ...
Alexey Kovalev has an interesting article on the technology facilitating the grassroots-led anti-corruption effort growing in Russia. If Medvedev’s reformist entourage doesn’t have the chutzpah to get the job done over Yukos, Her...
Tom Fenton has an interesting article in Global Post on Russia’s “Murrow moment.” Leonid Parfyonov’s stunning speech to Russian TV executives at an award ceremony in November was ignored by Russian state television, but you...
Today the Toronto Star is running an extensive profile of Robert Amsterdam – we’re grateful for their interest, and hope you enjoy. By Monday we’ll be back to our regularly scheduled programming. “I don’t think any r...
Say what you will about Vladimir Putin’s extravagantly stage-managed photo ops, but variety is certainly not an issue. For this year’s Orthodox Christmas services, he strikes a favorite populist trope we haven’t seen in som...
Being that wonderful week between New Year’s and Orthodox Christmas, there is basically no news coming out of Russia as everybody is on holiday. As such, we’re basically going to be posting whatever we feel like, for example, thi...
We’ve given the recent Bollywood summit between Dmitry Medvedev and Mahoman Singh a bit of coverage, but here MK Bhadrakumar gets more in depth. Despite his baroque, flowery writing style, the author provides a glimpse into the future ...
In some old Soviet film-fairytale, I think it may have been Ali-Baba, there was a memorable character who played the role of a midnight town crier. Something like a watchman, but one who brought the reassuring news. He walked at night through the ...
Anatoly Chubais hasn’t ruffled anybody’s feathers in quite a while, so it comes as a surprise that he has broken ranks with officialdom over the arrest and 15-day detention order of Boris Nemtsov. On the other hand, Chubais has o...
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