TODAY: Medvedev’s state-of-the-nation address addresses with social issues, threats of arms race with NATO backed by Putin; new WikiLeaks; Igor Izmestyev wrongly charged? Kasparov on Khodorkovsky; art, poetry. President Dmitry Medvedev’...
Carnegie Moscow Center has released a new collection of working papers under the title “Engaging History: The Problems & Politics of Memory in Russia and the Post-Socialist Space,” tackling a subject of great interest to us. The co...
During an international investment forum held last month in Moscow, Premier Putin boldly declared: “We are going to economize every ruble of the budget in the strictest possible way!” He also said a whole bunch of other things there ...
Writing on Foreign Policy/NPR, Julia Ioffe points out that pretty much everything revealed in the latest Wikileaks document dump is already well known, and not really a big deal in Russia. No democracy? That’s certainly news.&nbs...
TODAY: Kashin attackers post video, journalist writes first column since attack; Parfenov’s ‘magic touch’; Kremlin unperturbed by Wikileaks; has Russia broken long-standing pledges to NATO? Nashi founder, officials accused of cri...
It’s no wonder why the FSB vaguely threatened to assassinate Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. In just the first wave of confidential diplomatic cables released yesterday, we get the opportunity to how officials of the U.S. government ...
TODAY: Editor of Russian Newsweek speaks out against television news; bill submitted on tougher penalties for those who attack journalists; Wikileaks could embarrass diplomats; small-time gangsters; Olympics row with Georgia; Duma blames Stalin fo...
TODAY: Russia planning naval expansion; Putin praises Tajik military base; Belarus accuses Russia of funding opposition; Merkel spiky ahead of talks; Lavrov supports UN statement on N Korea; Wikileaks to expose corrupt politicians? World Cup and W...
TODAY: Medvedev calls for political parties to diversify, warns of stagnation; Foreign Ministry won’t take Saakashvili seriously until it’s in writing; Romanian minister calls for troops to leave Moldova; friendly NATO relations underm...
There’s not much to object to in President Dmitry Medvedev’s most recent video blog statement, which is being interpreted as a preview to his address to the Duma next week and a continuation of his ideological development kicked off by...
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