In a recent interview with the French publication Les Echos, Mikhail Khodorkovsky answered questions about what he would do if released into freedom, and addressed earlier statements he has made regarding renewable sources of energy. He answered, ...
Ian Bremmer, author and founder of Eurasia Group, has always been pretty good at delivering the “view from 10,000 feet” type of stuff, and his latest on Russia in Foreign Policy keeps it up. Medvedev’s recent friendly relat...
The Washington Post editorial on the spy ring today is a little too neat and tidy for my tastes: Why would the successor to the KGB invest so much money and effort “to infiltrate academic, policymaking and government-connected circles,”...
Steve LeVine digs up good stuff on one of the original spies from Russia’s “illegals” program, Nikolai Khokhlov. Maybe the spy ring of 11 underground Americans were simply awaiting their eventual orders, if they ever came. ...
It sure didn’t take long, but I am pretty well exhausted by reading the latest article on Anna Chapman’s favorite singles bar or combing Mikhail Semenko’s LinkIn profile for meaningless details. Julia Ioffe gets it right in...
A good article from David Hearst in the Guardian points out that 1) nobody should be surprised that undercover SVR agents were operating in the United States (there’s a whole series of books on the subject), and 2) other nations such as the ...
It’s only Tuesday, but my favorite headline of the week so far comes from New York magazine: Russia to U.S.: How Dare You Bust Our Secret Ring of Idiot Clown Spies? Also, as though the media weren’t already having too much fun, it appe...
Quoted by the Wall Street Journal, Dmitri Trenin has some useful explanations extracted below regarding the embarrassing incident of arrested spies in the United States. The question I keep thinking of was raised by Yevgenia Albats – w...
I never thought I would read something positive from Robert Kagan regarding the Obama Administration’s Russia policy, but here you go: Finally, on an issue where the administration has been weakest, there was a sign of a shift. Amid the happ...
It shouldn’t be any surprise that some reactions in Russia to the arrest of 10 alleged spies are arguing for a conspiracy theory: “This strongly resembles a struggle of opposition forces against President Obama,” said Gennady Gud...
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