Journalist Grigory Pasko recently had the opportunity to sit down with Andrei Illarionov, former advisor to the President of the Russian Federation, and currently a Senior Fellow at the Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity at the Cato Institut...
This fantastic picture says it all. Vladimir Putin looks up briefly from his reading material to smile knowingly as Liberal Democrat leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky mouths off about Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov in the Duma last week. It’...
TODAY: Russia detains former Kyrgyz police official; US and Russia call for WW2 style mutual trust; Belarus angry over free Russian naval bases; Ukrainians protest new gas-for-base deal; Russian wins London Marathon; United Russia seeks ban for Zh...
Time Magazine ponders today the growing influence of Russia in former Soviet states that had made concrete steps towards breaking away in recent years, such as Georgia, which is thought to have less support from Obama now than it had from the...
TODAY: Human rights groups call for murder inquiry into Magnitsky’s death; Memorial attempting to declassify Katyn documents; Russia denies Georgia’s uranium smuggling accusations; lawmakers urge Russia not to halt US adoptions; nuclea...
A little while back we saw this new rhetoric coming on, and as expected, Russia is beginning to pile it on with the Narco NATO talk. Lacking any other dispute, this will likely be Russia’s obligatory confrontation with the West, like the Geo...
Konstantin Sonin makes an interesting point in today’s Moscow Times about the nature of modernization as a strategic tool for gaining power in government. Sonin implies that Dmitry Medvedev and Vladimir Putin’s peaceful tandem ru...
So, Ukraine finally got the gas discount that many critics of the long-term contract, set in place by Yulia Tymoshenko and Vladimir Putin last year, have been hoping for. In exchange for a 30% discount on the agreed gas price, Ukraine will e...
TODAY: NATO meeting to be dominated by Russia questions? Scientology writings banned for extremism; Sochi Mayor orders residents to paint their roofs; IOC life president dies; anniversary of Lenin’s birth; motorists protest flashing blue lig...
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