During President Dmitry Medvedev’s visit to Silicon Valley earlier this year to pitch Russia as the next hotbed of technological innovation, the industry responded with guarded interest. Well yes, sure, that sounds great, but what are you go...
Here’s an entertaining look at the origin of “militsia”, the term for Russian police that Medvedev wants to change as part of his police overhaul. From Michele A. Berdy’s piece in the Moscow Times: Right now, the law enforc...
Reuters has a concise summary of a Levanda Center opinion poll on Russia’s leadership, which was released yesterday. Putin’s approval rating remains quite high at 59%. The catch: the survey was conducted before the disastrous wildfires...
TODAY: Putin fails to mark 10th anniversary of Kursk submarine disaster; doctors told not to diagnose heatstroke; 35 protesters detained at anti-Luzhkov rally; Levada polls Putin’s failures; reconstruction webcams point to empty fields; spac...
Hillary Clinton is urging the Senate to quickly pass the New START treaty, arguing that it will make relations with Russia more stable and predictable. The CNN reports: There is nothing in the measure that will prevent the United States from moder...
A US court ruled last week that Russia should hand over Jewish manuscripts, confiscated by the Red Army in Germany during World War II, to the Chabad Lubavitch movement, a Hasidic group based in New York. But Russia is saying that the ruling contr...
TODAY: Moscow air improves but fires still rage; blogger suggests Putin be fined for flying without license; China pledges support; what happened to the Aerial Forest Protection Center? Over 90% of prisoners have health problems; Magnitsky police ...
On August 12, 2000 the Russian nuclear submarine APL “Kursk” sank in the Barents Sea during exercises of the Navy’s Northern Fleet. In so doing the entire crew of the submarine, consisting of 118 people, died. In traditional Russ...
The Christian Science Monitor takes a look at the dangers associated with the spread of Russia’s wildfires to areas still contaminated by the fallout from Chernobyl. The threat of radioactive smoke spreading across the region is a real one, ...
Staying true to its word to provide support for Georgia’s breakaway territories, Russia announced today it has deployed anti-aircraft missiles in Abkhazia. According to some Russian experts, the move could be a warning directed at Nato and t...
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