TODAY: Medvedev responds to survey on modernization; case against anti-government newspaper thrown out; Dymovsky interview; Limonov to pull out of Strategy 31 filings; NATO praises military relations with Russia; Russian helicopter lands ‘in...
“She is quite sexy, you could say, but she is not a spy,” says attorney Scott Palmer of his client Anna Fermanova, who was arrested in mid-July after allegedly attempting to smuggle restricted millitary night-vision equipment from the ...
Here’s an interesting report from the Moscow Times: The cost of the average bribe in Russia has doubled over the last six months. Paradoxically, the reason behind the increase appears to be Medvedev’s fight against corruption. Some say...
Writing in the Financial Post, Tim Shufelt takes a look at Russia’s recently-announced plan to sell off minority shares in some of the country’s biggest companies. He argues the move doesn’t represent any significant trend toward...
Russia’s tightrope walk over the widening chasm between Iran and the Western world is getting confusing. A quick recap: Last month Russia supported UN sanctions imposed on Iran, then promptly promised Iran cooperation in the oil and gas indu...
TODAY: Weather causes underground fires and air pollution; Chichvarkin seeks investigation into mother’s death; Ukrainian activists detained over Kirill protests; eleventh spy discovered in Canada? Military hazing on the rise; Satanism...
In the Huffington Post this weekend, Simon Shuster takes a look at the anatomy of Putin’s populism. Apparently, Putin told a pee joke during his visit to a beach in the town of Chelyabinsk on Friday: Upon noticing that there were no public t...
Putin certainly knows how to make headlines. His by-now-famous sing-along during a meeting with the recently-deported Russian spies was top news in dozens of papers this weekend. International media have picked up on the chilling overtones of the ...
Writing in Foreign Policy, Charles Recknagel offers a (somewhat) hopeful look at the troubled Kyrgyzstan, arguing that, following the recent approval of the country’s new constitution, “Kyrgyzstan became the strongest parliamentary sys...
TODAY: Russia gets its first black politician; Putin rides motorbikes and sings patriotic songs with spies; Baksanskaya terrorists killed? Weather breaks records; Khimki forest activist interview; pickets against Kirill banned in Ukraine; Strategy...
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