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FSB and the Nationalization of Cyberspace
Not exactly new information to anybody here, but it’s still scary nonetheless. From Mishy Glenny, author of McMafia, in the Financial Times: Cyberspace is being nationalised rapidly. In some parts of the world, this has been going on f...
RA’s Daily Russian News Blast – March 18, 2010
TODAY: Clinton in Moscow to push START onwards; complicated Middle East talks loom in background; EU urges Georgia to cease stirring up tensions with Russia; Ukraine to attempt EU-Russia balancing act. ‘Putin Must Go’ takes to th...
Sochi’s Blue Balls
I found this article in the New Zealand Herald thoroughly entertaining: apparently the 2014 Sochi Olympic Games will be using something called “Zorbs” – giant blue rolling balls with people running inside of them – as...
Everybody Hates the Reset
This bit from Time magazine gets right at the central problem of the Obama administration’s reset policy with Russia – it just isn’t being reciprocated when there are so many advantages to keeping Washington as the great enemy. B...
RA’s Daily Russian News Blast – March 17, 2010
TODAY: Medvedev comes down hard on ministers; prison mastermind fired; could a return to Soviet labor be on the cards? Colonel sentenced for bribe taking; Chernobyl survivors bring lawsuit against Medvedev. Tensions bubbling with Belarus as ...
Former Yukos Lawyer Joins Rosneft
Today Nezavisimaya Gazeta is reporting that the former Yukos lawyer Dmitry Gololobov, who has in recent years cooperated with prosecutors in testimony against defendants and published materials against the case before the ECHR, has accepted a Vice...
Video: Tackling Russia’s Police Corruption
Medvedev Reacts to Criticism of Slow Reforms
This news pretty much speaks for itself. The clock is now ticking on how long the president can blame others for the lack of fulfillment of his statements on reform. From the Financial Times: On Tuesday he told a video conference with ...
RA’s Daily Russian News Blast – March 16, 2010
TODAY: Opposition parties make a dent in United Russia predominance at elections?; cascade of disapproval from Western envoys falls on Imedi media after TV hoax; Medvedev continues shake-up in Caucasus; Lukoil using the blogosphere to persuade pub...
