Russia’s ban on exporting wheat as a measure to help the domestic market cope with the country’s ongoing draught has had an immediate effect, driving up wheat prices around the world. Putin announced the ban today, in an apparent sudde...
Writing in the Moscow Times, Kim Iskyan argues that, despite many critics’ skepticism, the Kremlin’s recenlty-announced privatization plan could bring some positive developments, namely, help create a push for a better, less corrupt in...
Speaking to the press just days before the two-year anniversary of the South Ossetia War, Medvedev blamed the unimproved relations between the two countries on Georgia’s leadership. Russia’s news agency reports: “Russia is not gu...
Vladimir Kara-Murza, a Solidarity leader, has published a new op/ed in the Wall Street Journal denouncing the terribly pointless arrest of Boris Nemtsov. In the article, Kara-Murza draws comparisons between the 1960s dissident gatherings on ...
TODAY: Smog from wildfires chokes Muscovites; Medvedev fires officials and demands new fire safety measures; Putin offers to help blogger in exchange for his address; Khimki campaigner Yevgenia Chirikova detained; journalist Magomed Yevloyev’...
Today Human Rights Watch announced Hellman/Hammett grants today for 42 writers “in recognition of their commitment to free expression and courage in the face of political persecution.” Among the listed writers are three Russians ...
This video below presents a remarkable scene of Vladimir Putin being confronted outside a government building in Nizhny Novgorod (Hat tip, La Russophobe). Dozens of local residents who had lost their homes in the fires had little patience fo...
It seems that Doku Umarov has changed his mind about retiring. According to media reports earlier this week, the Chechen rebel leader announced in a recent video that he was stepping down from his command position. He now says in a new video that ...
Writing in Foreign Policy, Josh Rogin examines the repercussions of delaying the Senate Relations Committee vote on the New START: Committee chairman John Kerry, D-MA, told committee members at Tuesday’s business meeting that even though the...
I didn’t have time yesterday to publish this link, but better late than never. Sublime Oblivion has put up a translation of an introduction to a book by Vladimir Pribylovsky entitled “Phantom Tandem, Real Triumvirate and the Krem...
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