This bit is good for a chuckle – but at least the president is good enough to admit that Russia has a big human rights problem. From ITAR-TASS: Russia is ready to discuss the observance of human rights with other countries as well as w...
As a gesture of goodwill following the Smolensk crash which claimed the life of President Lech Kaczynski and scores of other influential Polish leaders, the Russian government decided this week to declassify some historical archives relating to th...
Yet another remnant of Ukraine’s Orange Revolution has been picked off this week by President Viktor Yanukovych with his Moscow-friendly statement that Holodomor, the famine caused by Stalin’s policies, shouldn’t be consider...
TODAY: Medvedev orders release of Katyn documents; police wages to double; Vedomosti to sue Gryzlov; Other Russia files complaint with EU against Kremlin; increased risk of military strike in North Caucasus; leaders praise naval base, Yanukovych s...
Poor Barack Obama, he just can’t make anybody happy with his reset policy toward Russia. His opponents on the right argue that he’s selling the farm through weakness and undeserved concessions to an uncooperative, aggressive gove...
Russia’s controversial deal offering reduced gas prices to Ukraine in exchange for an extended lease on its Sevastopol naval base have commentators up in arms. Ukrainian opposition to the deal has reached near fever pitch: Reuters repo...
TODAY: New bill could give FSB power over media; Dalai Lama visa refused; Senator wants Russian officials connected with Magnitsky’s death banned from the U.S.; Putin denies that personal ties with Berlusconi are driving deals; Medvedev not ...
Tony Barber at the FT’s Brussels Blog ponders the significance of Ukraine’s controversial gas-for-naval-base deal and how it colors relations with the EU. The deal puts paid to any chance of NATO membership, Barber says, not...
One of the most powerful literary accounts of the Vietnam War was Tim O’Brien’s famous collection of stories The Things They Carried, which as a rhetorical device categorically listed the minute objects of possession carried by the sol...
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