TODAY: Election watchdog warns of dirty electioneering; Putin’s Valdai Club soundbites hit the press; Luzhkov backs Khimki road; company deforests St Petersburg lake resort; singer summoned to explain inflammatory lyrics; Afghanistan, Israel...
Writing in the Moscow Times, economist Vladislav Inozemtsev has a bold and simple idea to modernize the Russian economy – and it doesn’t involve a top-down approach to force through an innovation center in the Skolkovo valley. Th...
The Economist has a a translation of a terrific article by former Polish Foreign Minister Adam Rotfeld, which was originally published in Gazeta Wyborcza earlier this summer. Rotfeld gets to the bottom of the many competing and complimentary...
TODAY: EU parliament member criticizes Putin; Nashi lawsuit thrown out; Kruglova sentence suspended; Dagestan bombings; Matviyenko for President? Military cooperation with Israel; Frolov blasts Medvedev (again); internet crimesolving. Heidi Hautal...
Ah, the Valdai Discussion Club – that wonderful time of year of ponderous navel-gazing over the future of Russia’s unfulfilled potential, a moment of generous ignorance over the country’s more serious systemic problems. Nei...
TODAY: Wildfires kill 5; Putin’s Lada trip mocked online; Lyudmila Alexeyeva to stop protesting; Kremlin blames opposition crackdowns on Moscow; police raid New Times; policewoman fired after protest video; Church to ban unauthorized media; ...
A report in Vedomosti (translation via RT) summarizes the disappointing findings by the Anti-Corruption Research Center under Russia’s Ministry of Justice. In 2007, 21,842 such crimes have been registered, and only 6,185 cases were brought t...
Here’s a “news story” that was shown on one of Russia’s official Kremlin-owned and -controlled television channels during Vladimir Putin’s recent motoring holiday across one of the few parts of Siberia where there are...
We’ve often featured translations from the pro-government news outlet RBK Daily, which often goes a few steps too far in its efforts to please the leadership, resulting in amusing and sometimes enlightening tidbits of officialistic thinking....
TODAY: Moscow Governor corrals pro-Khimki highway residents; activists’ website under attack; lawyer launches campaign for imprisoned mother of four; US comments on Strategy 31 arrests; Medvedev in Azerbajan; Lukashenko blames Moscow for emb...
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