Bloomberg reported today that President Medvedev has come out against the building of the 403-meter Gazprom tower, locally referred to known as the ‘corncob’, a giant structure that would, if built, dominate the St Petersburg skyline a...
Today as Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Zhukov is celebrating his appointment as president of the Russian Olympic Committee, and promising to revive Soviet era sporting predominance after a miserable showing in Vancouver, the New York Times has a...
TODAY: Zhukov promises fresh start for Russian sports; Sochi hunger strike; Paralympian triumph. Suit against Gryzlov thrown out; gay pride march unsanctioned. Ukraine-Russia thaw in spotlight; what exactly are Russia’s foreign p...
It seems that one way or another there is always an obstacle to President Medvedev’s ostensible aim of reducing graft and obviating legal nihilism. An article in today’s Moscow Times showcases this precise kind of obstacle. ...
Mikhail Khodorkovsky’s brief but successful hunger strike this week was based upon an unusual request: he was seeking confirmation that President Dmitry Medvedev was aware that Russian courts are disobeying a law Medvedev himself had r...
(The following article was written before Mikhail Khodorkovsky had concluded his hunger strike following a successful result. – Editor) Mikhail Khodorkovsky has declared a hunger strike of indefinite duration. About this became known from a ...
We all know that Russia has a reputation for being an expert in cybercrime, from everyday garden variety piracy through to high-level cyberattacks (about which, according to recent reports, NATO should be concerned). In Forbes today, Andy Gr...
Julian Borger’s global security blog today looked at how the Turkey-Brazil fuel swap deal with Iran was squashed with little ado by Hillary Clinton and the P5, and new sanctions agreed upon with suprising alacrity on the part of China and Ru...
Another mining accident has occurred in the same region where up to 90 miners perished last weekend; this time two workers from the Aleskeyevskaya coal mine remain missing. Yulia Latynina commented both acerbically and astutely in today̵...
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