Back in 2008, Stanford professor Michael McFaul wrote an article in Foreign Affairs along with Kathryn Stoner-Weiss which upset the Putin-supporting camp. Then, following the election of Barack Obama, McFaul was appointed as the key Russia a...
It’s an argument so simple and obvious that I actually haven’t seen all that many people bothering to make it. Nevertheless, the Financial Times is running an editorial gently suggesting that it might not be such a good idea for ...
TODAY: US officials speak out about human rights in Russia; Pomonarev imprisonment criticized; Fink jailed; United Russia deputies head all regional parliaments? Altai journalist charged with defamation; Altai village loses all of its homes in wil...
During a meeting on improving the judicial system this past July, President Dmitry Medvedev noted that “the modern-day court must be open for public control and in a greater degree accessible for citizens.” The president also spoke abo...
Interesting comments from the prime minister in the Wall Street Journal. However this seems about as believable as Skidelsky’s observations that Putin’s interest in power is waning… Voluntary retirement and minimal co...
TODAY: Row over Ryabinin’s whereabouts reflects badly on Luzhkov; Bastrykin under fire over Magnitsky comments; Gryzlov says Russia waiting for the US Senate on START; Kalmykia region to get new head; Shoigu blames regional heads for fire sp...
He didn’t actually say that, but Alexander Rahr’s observations of the Russian Prime Minister during his appearance before Valdai is quite revealing: Alexander Rahr, a Russia expert with the German Council on Foreign Relations, a think ...
A few weeks ago, a much discussed report from a group of Russian human rights activists established that the volume of corruption in the country comprises 50% of GDP, finding that law enforcement and the judicial system are the institutions most a...
Way back when PricewaterhouseCoopers withdrew ten years of audits of the Yukos accounts following several government raids on their offices and an implicit threat to revoke their business license, anybody with half a brain could smell something ro...
The Atlanta Journal Constitution is running a pro and con piece from two defense experts debating the ratification of the replacement of the START nuclear treaty with Russia. The two seem to focus their disagreement on the weakened verificat...
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