This from the New York Times Idea of the Day blog. As if the Sochi Olympics didn’t already have enough problems: Not enough sports-related international tension in the air for you, with the World Cup in full swing? Look no further than...
TODAY: Kyrgyzstan violence continues, CSTO to send in helicopters; US human trafficking report published; Medvedev unexpected trip to Chechnya; Iran demands missiles; Latvian arrested over Arctic Sea; Baluva test; rally against police lawlessness;...
TODAY: Escalation of ethnic unrest in Kyrgyzstan prompts government to seek Russian help; Kremlin sends paratroopers; Kazakhstan concerns about politics of customs union; missile sales to Iran to stay on ice. Trifonova death cause establishe...
This one is a couple days old, but worth checking out. From David J. Kramer blogging at Shadow Government (FP): There is no denying the vastly improved tone and rapport between the American and Russian presidents compared to the end of the B...
Dmitry Sidorov’s latest op/ed in Forbes is a vitriolic, no-holds-barred rant, but he’s right that at least somebody should be angry about the Russian officers who stole credit cards from the dead at the Polish president’s air cra...
As the World Cup kicks off right about now, Amnesty International has come up with a clever way to ride some of the hype by putting together their own selection of players … though everybody appears to play defense. The list features o...
TODAY: Putin trust rating plummets; children encouraged to pray for their leaders; human rights activists urge France to address rights abuses during Putin Paris trip; Solidarity coalition leader assaulted. Russia and China at SCO meeting &#...
OK, this story might already be dead, but in case you have been sleeping under a rock for the past two weeks and somehow missed all the news and discussion about the on-air confrontation between Vladimir Putin and the rock star Yuri Shevchuk, here...
TODAY: Putin not ‘fussing’ over 2012 election; denies image cultivation; Stalin-era mass grave found. Duma attendance increases; man faces 2 1/2 years in prison for rally incident with policeman; officials to lose migalki? ...
Out of all the things that could pop up to drive a wedge between Kremlin elites, from foreign meddling to money to competing powers of the clans, you would have never guessed that the environment could become so troublesome an issue. At the end of...
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