(Photo from Associated Press, via Financial Times) Another senseless and outrageous terrorist attack has gripped Moscow today, this time striking the Metro stations of Lubyanka and Park Kultury, as apparently two separate female suicide bombers (r...
TODAY: At least 37 people killed in double suicide Moscow metro bombing; weekend of protests all over Russia; arms treaty with US sealed by a phone call; Kremlin smear campaign to discredit opposition? Yulia Latynina; Communist mayor beaten. Dozen...
Try not to laugh. From the Economist on the Yukos-Rosneft legal battle, emphasis mine. The injunctions, which stop Rosneft from making payments from its local accounts, have put its oil traders and its creditors into a spin. They put Rosneft...
TODAY: Russia dropping two time zones; express train infuriates locals, royalties debate infuriates veterans; US-Russia treaty still on shaky ground; China to invest in Belarus; Kremlin bans ‘Mein Kampf’, Yury Luzhkov hasn’t give...
There’s a good blog post by Michael Idov over at the Daily Beast discussing the most recent case of the FSB putting together a variety of hidden camera clips in order to frame up their opponents in depraved situations – this time portr...
Grigory Perelman, Russia’s famous math genius savant and social recluse, has been in the news quite often since solving the world’s most difficult math problem, the Poincare Conjecture, as astounding feat which was called the “Sc...
As soon as you get some fruit involved, you know that Russia’s political unrest is starting to get serious. From the Financial Times on the Kaliningrad protest movement: Many Kaliningraders had trouble explaining the exact corresponden...
TODAY: Reports says START deal made, Prague to host signing ceremony; Russian aircraft frequent visitors to British airspace. PACE monitors lambasts Kremlin approach to freedom of assembly; Putin-loyal parties in dispute. UR toning down amne...
TODAY: Human rights activists call for European protection, blame corruption as a setback to Russia’s development; death penalty to stay; Putin meets Chinese premier; Luzhkov’s deputy investigated for corruption; police officers disapp...
This interesting piece over at Foreign Policy argues that Barack Obama is making the same mistake as George Bush by investing in a supposedly preferential personal relationship with the president of Russia, and that the decision will come back to ...
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