Yesterday we were contacted by a PR representative of the Austrian banking group Raiffeisen Zentralbank (RZB) with the following message: Austria’s Financial Markets Authority (FMA) has now officially declared that there is no grounds for su...
So what political advice could Vladimir Putin share with Barack Obama to tightly grip power for more than a decade? Steve LeVine has some good suggestions. Is it possible to translate the Putin magic to America? After all, if you pay attenti...
For several years now we have been closely following the state theft/tax fraud perpetrated against Hermitage Capital Management and its CEO William Browder by members of the police and Interior Ministry, which eventually resulted in the death in p...
The most common complaint of Russia obsessives is that the international media seems to often present the country in such a negative light, creating a perception that is entirely out of whack with the reality of day-to-day life. But some mar...
An interesting quote from Vladimir Kara-Murza on Vladimir Putin’s apparent dwindling support in the Levada opinion polls, however the implausible fantasy of charging the president with crimes is a strong motivation to simply stay in power. &...
Half an hour before the start of the latest court day in the Khamovnichesky Court the public was discussing Putin’s words about Khodorkovsky, attributed to him by the Polish journalist Adam Michnik. I shall remind readers that, in the words ...
As promised, here’s more from the recent Yaroslavl Forum. On Friday, Russia’s titular head of state revealed his definition of “democracy” to the assembled political scientists. Even after carefully reading our exclusive tr...
This Yaroslavl Forum thing is really turning into a clown conference, with comments like this: “I categorically do not agree with those who claim that there is no democracy in Russia, that it is ruled by authoritarian tradition,” Medve...
Just a bit of reasonable stridency from the Guardian’s editorial page: In an off-the-record briefing to a visiting group of foreign academics and journalists this week, a senior official of the Russian government spoke in tones verging on co...
TODAY: Vladikavkaz death toll reaches 17, three suspects arrested; wildfires continue to spread in Altai and Novosibirsk, latter region gets new leader; alternative Khimki route ‘too expensive’; smoking and AIDS; modernization is about...
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