Two journalists and about twelve activists were detained while camping at Moscow’s Khimki forest to protest plans to raze the area to make room for a highway. RFE/RL, one of whose reporters was amog those detained, has a report with eyewitne...
In a nod to the overall atmosphere of good will kindled by the US administration’s reset policy, Russia announced today it was willing to work together with NATO again. This comes after a two-year hiatus, following Russia’s invasion of...
TODAY: Medvedev says heads will roll in the Caucasus if terrorist attacks are not contained; US apologizes to Russia over pilot dispute; Khimki protesters detained; Natalya Estemirova; recent bill to curb protesters ‘could have been worse...
Quite predictably, Russia was not happy about Thursday’s ICJ ruling that Kosovo’s 2008 declaration of independence is legal. Reuters reports: “Our position on the non-recognition of Kosovo’s independence remains uncha...
Good Question. This very useful Q&A put together by Reuters helps place Russia’s recent offer of cooperation with Iran in the energy industry into a larger context: Russia took steps to soothe Tehran last week when Oil Minister Massoud M...
Writing in the Moscow Times today Yevgeny Bazhanov offers a succinct historical overview of the shifting alliances between Russia, China and the US. He concludes that, just as the attempted China-US alliance against Russia fizzled in the 1980s, so...
TODAY: Hydropower attackers named; same-sex couples to be denied Russian adoptions; blue bucket protesters detained in Moscow; Moldova wants Russia out; Foreign Ministry accuses US of ‘kidnapping’; Medvedev in Finland; Siberian woman s...
Today’s bomb attack on a power plant in the North Caucasus, which left two dead and put the plant out of service for weeks, might signal Russian extremists’ shift toward economic targets in the region, experts say in a Reuters report p...
Arguing along similar lines as Katinka Barysch’s piece yesterday, analysts quoted in Judy Dempsey’s New York Times article today call for a single strong policy toward Ukraine, which seems to be moving back into Russia’s sphere o...
TODAY: New UNICEF report on HIV and Russian children; militants attack hydropower plant in North Caucasus; boost for Strategy 31; FSB says employee salaries are state secrets; drought and heatwave continue; arms exports to reach a post-Soviet reco...
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