TODAY: Opposition leaders petition the President; journalists fear for freedom of press; Lake Baikal paper mill angers locals; monument to Sakharov; Khodorkovsky on corruption. Russia concerned about US Patriot deployment; Ukraine changes na...
TODAY: Russia expected to bristle as Poland receives US battery, no reaction so far; EU to reassure Eastern partners; Georgia-Russia flights resume; US-Russia basketball rapprochement. Medvedev orders army modernization; Russia mulling over naval ...
It is an imperfect analogy in many respects, such as population, immigration, development, and Islamic extremism just to name a few, but the growing problem the Russian Federation is facing from the ongoing war in Afghanistan and the massive growt...
For the past couple of days, the conservative media has really sinking its teeth into the latest draft U.N. resolution on Iran sanctions, which apparently contains a loophole allowing for the sale of S-300 missiles by Moscow to Tehran. The W...
On Fareed Zakaria’s weekly GPS news magazine show on CNN this past weekend, the entire hour is dedicated to Russia, including interviews with William Browder, Mikheil Saakashvili, Bret Stephens, and Stephen Cohen.
TODAY: Chess federation loses home; Siberian authorities ban miners’ protest; promise to close suspect mines; new anti-corruption measures; Duma lawmakers complain about judiciary’s failure to comply with new economic crime law. ...
Our country, led by the friendly Putin-Medvedev tandem, continues to move in seven-mile steps towards the shining heights (a variant on the shameful failures) of the socialist past. They’re writing that in one of the polyclinics (I suspect t...
The Russian premier sure loves his idiomatic phrases. He has certainly made up a number of his very own, and when he can’t, he always manages to remember something suitable to the occasion. And so it was that he remembered a phrase from the ...
We’ve covered the case of the persecuted Russian journalist Mikhail Beketov in many articles on this blog, and it’s good to see his name featured in a New York Times editorial today. Mr. Levy described how Mikhail Beketov dared to writ...
The much-cherished Sevastopol naval base, an extensive gas pipeline network, and maintaining a strong presence in its traditional sphere of influence: the reasons for Russia’s rapprochement with Kremlin-friendly Viktor Yanukovych are manifol...
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