Russia

December 1, 2010

RA’s Daily Russian News Blast – Dec 1, 2010

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’...
November 30, 2010

Russia’s Struggle over History

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...
November 30, 2010

Grigory Pasko: Power over the Purse Strings

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 &#...
November 30, 2010

Wikileaks Disappointment Syndrome

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...
November 30, 2010

RA’s Daily Russian News Blast – Nov 30, 2010

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...
November 29, 2010

Wikileaks Resets The Reset

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 ...
November 29, 2010

RA’s Daily Russian News Blast – Nov 29, 2010

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...
November 26, 2010

RA’s Daily Russian News Blast – Nov 26, 2010

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...
November 25, 2010

RA’s Daily Russian News Blast – Nov 25, 2010

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...
November 24, 2010

Medvedev’s Gentle Grumbling

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...