TODAY: US-Russia adoption issues remain thorny; Sochi land seizures apparently ‘resolved’; Ukrainian journalists protest; message of trust for Poland from Putin. Plea from Georgian ambassador to UK to Abkhazia; has Lukashenko ove...
Joshua Foust, one of our favorite Central Asia bloggers over at Registan.net, has begun dropping in more regularly on Steve Levine’s Oil and Glory – this time reviewing Boris Volodarsky’s book on KGB/GRU/FSB obsession with poison...
Over on the Guardian website, there is an article from a member of the Georgian government, which recommends that Tbilisi and Abkhazia seek to improve relations by setting up free trade zones, better roads, and education cooperation in local langu...
It’s always fun to pay attention to what kinds of official gifts are exchanged between countries and heads of state. Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez, for example, is very fond of giving visiting dignitaries a replica of the sword of Simo...
TODAY: May Day opposition rally; Medvedev orders investigation into another death at Matrosskaya Tishina jail; activists detained in blue bucket protest; bombs in Caucasus; Russia and US push for nuclear weapon deal in Middle East; racism waning? ...
Here’s a little story we picked up on the RIA Novosti tourism news website. A significant part of the income of Russia’s new client statelet, Abkhazia, comes from the Russian tourists who visit the balmy shores of the Black Sea. Since ...
Whenever one conjures an image of a slick and stealth Russian spy, you might think of the lethal efficiency of Andrei Lugovoi or perhaps the more literary John Le Carre-invented spymaster Karla. What you might not imagine is that one of the ...
TODAY: Stalin posters still a bone of contention; Russia to demand greater powers over adoptees in the U.S.; mayor taken hostage; smiles found lacking; Freedom House; metro militant killed?; Lavrov sounds threatening over Iran; Ukraine partnering ...
Probably the most well known contemporary political assassination of a Russian citizen abroad, aside from the poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko, was the killing of Umar Israilov in Vienna in January 2009. Israilov, a Chechen exile and a form...
So to the surprise of approximately no one, the Kremlin finally reaped its first post-election rewards in Ukraine, when they bought themselves an extension of the lease for the naval base at Sevastopol in exchange for a cheap gas package for their...
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