It seems hardly surprising that the same day that the income of Yelena Baturina, the wife of the Moscow Mayor, is scrutinized by the media (see Business Week), a spate of articles appear pointing to the endangering of Moscow’s architectural ...
Reuters today features an interview with the apparently omni-disgruntled Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko, who seems to be exuberantly alienating old allies and potential new ones, with trenchant criticism of both Russia and the West. &#...
The weekend’s Blue Bucket Society protests reflect the burgeoning discontent among Moscow’s motorists, or least of those who do not have the pecuniary means to blaze their way through traffic with a glaring migalka. This article ...
TODAY: Governors reluctant on income transparency; official fired in Trifonova case, calls for prison reform redouble; Putin rebuffs Reports Without Borders criticisms. Kyrgyzstan to investigate Manas fuel supplies; Georgian opposition membe...
Reports in from Ria-Novosti state that one official has been dismissed over the death in prison of real estate agent Vera Trifonova, who died of kidney failure whilst held on fraud charges. Trifonova died in the same jail where Hermitage law...
Couldn’t help but be amused by the eye-catching headline ‘Mikhail Prokhorov to the rescue!‘ and accompanying article in today’s WSJ, which seems to inscribe Prokhorov’s multi-million dollar investment in the Russian B...
At the end of last month, Sen. Benjamin Cardin requested a visa ban against the 60 or so members of the Russian government who stand accused of ignoring the plight of lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, who died following medical mistreatment in prison. ...
It really wasn’t a question of if, but when. Today the AFP has picked up on some speech notes that Rep. Eric Cantor is planning to deliver before the Heritage Institute in Washington, which may signal that the Republicans are going to ...
So yet again this blog, or more specifically my role as editor here, has received another lashing at the hands of an angry blogger, this time our friend AK at Sublime Oblivion. I first read the attack yesterday without much thought or reacti...
I wonder if this kind of circular spy logic is a thing of the past, or rather the hushed conversations in Kiev over the past year. From Malcolm Galdwell’s latest in the New Yorker. The absurdity of such expression games has been wittil...
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