Walter Russell Mead, who has authored some very interesting books on foreign policy, offers a cautionary assessment following a visit to Tbilisi. The views he brings back on the situation, unfortunately, are quite glum, but also honest and i...
TODAY: Russia wants press freedom ranking explained; Council of Europe issues critical report demanding direct elections; Medvedev’s popularity on a par with Putin, who does not have a black eye, says his spokesperson; Kamchatka volcanoes er...
TODAY: 35,000 cases of corruption uncovered this year; Russia demands that NATO limit troops in new member states; Sobyanin begins dismissing officials; Sochi activist badly beaten; environmental protests on the horizon; Kasparov on the opposition...
Alexander Lebedev, former spy, recovering oligarch, occasional supporter of opposition, and owner of a burgeoning British media empire, has begun posting some very interesting – if sometimes confusing – conversational YouTube videos on...
Simon Tisdall of the Guardian checks in on the whole NATO-Europe-Russia rapprochement, asking what, exactly, the Russians have done to earn so much goodwill and reversal of positions among French, German, and of course, the Washington policy commu...
TODAY: Transparency International says Russian corruption worse than last year; Gorbachev speaks against government; Sobyanin appoints new team; Russia to return to Afghanistan? Census results show disparities; Putin on Solzhenitsyn; rights ...
A translation of an amusing quote from Chadayev – he probably meant to compare Skolkovo to San Jose, but couldn’t remember the name the city. Vegas? Close enough. Alexey Chadayev, head of the political department of the «Un...
From Stephen Blank on the Huffington Post: Russia’s main interest in attempting to buy out BP’s Eurasian holidngs is not profit so much as power. Indeed, all the recent projects it has announced with Central Asia for both oil and gas a...
This week we will post up several installments of this panel event for viewing. Russian “Spies” and Political Prisoners: The Sutyagin-Pasko Interviews, Pt. 1 from Robert Amsterdam on Vimeo.
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