In the aftermath of President Dmitry Medvedev’s somewhat melodramatic and drawn-out firing of Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov, the general consensus perspective appears to be that the president is politically benefiting from this strong “sho...
Artur Chilingarov, celebrity Duma member, scientist, and Arctic explorer-at-large, has been given an exciting new mission: to resurrect a ship stranded in the ice of the Arctic Ocean since 1934. Seems like the Kremlin is eagerly recycl...
Simon Shuster of TIME Magazine gets some good quotes on the firing of Mayor Yuri Luzhkov: The gravity of this news for Russia’s political circle was perhaps best expressed by Sergei Mironov, head of a pro-Kremlin political party, who wrote a...
Earlier this morning my law firm, Amsterdam & Peroff, convened a panel event in London featuring Igor Sutyagin, the recently released scientist who had spent 11 years imprisoned in Russia under dubious charges of treason, and Grigory Pasko, th...
Russia Profile has an interesting piece looking into the efforts of real estate mogul Telman Ismailov to get back into the good graces of the Kremlin. Having seen what is happening to Mayor Yuri Luzhkov, Ismailov’s rehabilitation campa...
Robert Skidelsky goes to both Valdai and Yaroslavl, finding not only competing ideas on history, democracy, and modernization, but a “faint but unmistakable odor of a looming conflict” and “a fascinating glimpse of a crumbling di...
This is the second in a series of webcasts we are trying out here on the blog. The Domestic Appeal of the Russia “Reset” from Robert Amsterdam on Vimeo.
How many times have we heard the Russian government say that the delivery of S-300 anti-aircraft missiles would be canceled or delayed, before then again moving ahead? We’ve lost count, and there’s not reason to think that the is...
Roland Oliphant reminds us that the fact that Yuri Luzhkov is under the screws and the fact that he is deeply unpopular – hated even – by many Muscovites, is completely coincidental and a non-factor in the Kremlin’s decision to g...
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