Steve Levine quotes Stephen Sestanovich on this apparent story of a spy swap for political prisoner Igor Sutyagin: It’s a relief to have Igor Sutyagin out after what he’s been through. But let’s recognize there’s been a ter...
Better late than never? Sen. John Kerry comes out in defense of the Obama administration’s new START treaty with Russia following the drubbing by Mitt Romney, opening up what we expect will be a long, targeted offensive from the Republ...
I didn’t ever consider that the spy story could get any stranger … and then this comes from AFP: Moscow is planning to release a Russian arms expert convicted of espionage in exchange for members of the alleged spy ring arrested in the...
Imagine the delirious celebrations which must have occurred last week within the editorial offices of media outlets like the New York Post, Daily News, CNN, and so many more upon receiving the news of the Department of Justice’s arrests of t...
There’s no room to swing a cat without running into a fresh corruption story coming out of Russia, and in fact, it’s become hard to impress the hardened cynics. But the latest public drubbing by the Audit Chamber of Russia’...
Fred Weir of the Christian Science Monitor has an interesting interview with Andrei Klimov of the Duma foreign affairs committee, who explains why Russia is not reacting strongly to Hillary Clinton’s recent statements regarding Georgia, Ukra...
The Republicans smell blood in the water on Obama’s reset policy with Russia, and here one of their leading contenders makes a formal stab at the START deal. They can’t say they didn’t see it coming. There are some bi...
The Russian government has a number of programs underway to become a nanotechnology leader and create a Silicon Valley. The problem is that some of the country’s best minds are not inclined to stick around under the current conditions....
This letter to the editor takes on a recent interesting article by Anatol Lieven in the Financial Times: From Dr Igor Torbakov. Sir, Anatol Lieven has again got Russia wrong (“Spies aside, Moscow has come in from the cold”, July 1). It...
Is this big news, or just more of the same? From Bloomberg: Russian lawmakers say they plan to overhaul the law on economic crimes, resulting in the early release of as many as 100,000 imprisoned executives and entrepreneurs as the governmen...
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