Writing in Eurasia Review, Paul Goble looks at the dismal state of healthcare for prisoners in Russia. Federal Penal System deputy head Nikolay Krivolapov said earlier this week that nearly half of the country’s prison population was ill. A ...
It’s a well-worn stereotype: the grim-faced, brooding Russian. But is there any truth to it? In a recent study, a group of scientists from the University of Michigan found that, though young Russians do seem to brood more than their American...
Medvedev essentially told Merkel not to meddle in Russia’s domestic affairs when asked to comment on a new draft law that would give the country’s Federal Security Service, a successor to the KGB, more powers. But it might be difficult...
Stranger things have happened. The alleged assassin of Alexander Litvinenko, Andrei Lugovoi won himself a seat in the Duma with widespread popularity. Vitali Kaloyev, a bereaved father who murdered a Swiss air traffic controller, also ...
Russia’s friendly overture toward Iran Wednesday, promising cooperation in the oil and gas industries, is just the latest example of the former Soviet superpower’s subtle (and sometimes not so subtle) efforts to increase its political ...
Doublespeak and sudden policy reversals are nothing new for the Russian diumvirate of Putin and Medvedev – it’s long been an operational philosophy (or the accidental result of a fragmented and clan-divided foreign policy). It is...
Writing in The New York Times today, op-ed contributor David Harris argues for doing away with the Jackson-Vanik Amendment, a US federal law from 1974 whose aim was to push the Soviet Union to let Russians, especially religious minorities, to emig...
Writing in the Moscow Times, Konstantin Sonin argues that Barack Obama’s reset policy is winning over the trust of Russian citizens. At least it’s working for some people. It was no great surprise that Obama took that position. His cho...
One of my favorite Spike Lee movies takes place during a brutal heatwave in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, where the high temperatures and simmering racial pressures explode into anger and a deeply unsettling interrogation of Ame...
Alvaro Vargas Llosa has an op/ed in the Globe and Mail on the relationship between the incompetence of the arrested/swapped spies and the lost reform process in Russia. Whereas China’s Deng Xiaoping had a clear vision of a midterm path to a ...
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