TODAY: Crash-landing plane kills 2; satellites crash into Pacific; Putin held secret talks with FIFA heads, source alleges; Khimki opposition editor dies of cancer; Medvedev in Poland; corruption website to track suspicious tenders; UK MP denies a...
France24 has a great interview and translation from lawyer, shareholder activist, and blogger Alexei Navalny: Other Transneft minority shareholders and I were trying to find out what made the construction so expensive when we discovered a truly as...
Vladimir Putin helpfully suggests / requests / instructs / threatens Roman Abramovich with the task of funding Russia’s multi-billion dollar World Cup infrastructure, half of which no doubt will be lost to corruption. From the Guardian...
Some people are annoyed and even furious by each successive wave of cables released by WikiLeaks. Writing in the Washington Post, Charles Krauthammer even suggested that founder Julian Assange deserved to be assassinated by a poison dart, a ...
This opinion from Ingo Mannteufel of Deutsche Welle strikes me as amusingly naive, but given that so many Russian football fans are ecstatic over the news of the 2018 World Cup, I think it’s OK to indulge in a few moments of fantasy that thi...
TODAY: Russia wins World Cup bid; EU wants human rights element of agreement with Russia; Tolyatti protest; Voronezh seeking information on Islamists; Strategy 31 protesters will not budge; WikiLeaks continue but is anyone surprised? 55 killed in ...
From Andrew Osborn in The Telegraph with regard to Vladimir Putin, Wikileaks, the murder of Alexander Litvinenko: In fact, far from being offended by this latest accusation, Mr Putin may even be revelling in it. Though some of the other leaked cab...
TODAY: New WikiLeaks on Litvinenko, Bout, high-level corruption, Georgia, and Putin’s wealth. Putin will not attend Russia’s World Cup bid; Larry King interview transcript; Fedotov outlines aims; AIDS protesters detained. New Wik...
It appears that the deep isolation of Hugo Chavez has hollowed out Venezuela’s relationship with Russia. Moscow probably doesn’t mind so long as he keeps the money flowing on arms. From the Financial Times on Wikileaks and ...
Judging by the profound glibness shown by a wide range of U.S. officials in response to the latest Wikileaks document dump, you’d think that Julian Assange had simply republished a pile of old newspapers. “I’m not entirely sure w...
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