If the Russian police are doing something very ham-fistedly and very doggedly, that means another agency is looming behind their back. And we can guess just which one. No doubt many of us from the very beginning assumed that the story with the sei...
Owen Matthews at Newsweek has been writing some hard-hitting stuff on Russia lately – namely the take down of Medvedevian faux modernization in that recent cover story. In this latest piece, Matthews conjures the irresistible James Bon...
Kim Zigfield (also known as La Russophobe) has a new blog post about Mikhail Khodorkovsky’s Nezavisimaya Gazeta article and the Yukos ECHR case as being two fronts of a legal battle against Putinism, published on PajamasMedia: Make no mistak...
Joshua Foust, who usually blogs at Registan.net, has a book review (posted a few days back) of former GRU General Boris Volodarsky’s history of Russia’s use of poisons for assassinations published at Oil and the Glory. And what a poiso...
TODAY: High turn-out in regional elections clouded in allegations of fraud; United Russia victory looks likely; spoof TV show showing Russian invasion sends panic across Georgia. START replacement deal imminent (apparently). Mass protest against t...
Today’s analysis of the buildup to the weekend’s regional elections may feel like old news to many: the talk of disappointment at the apparent continual and purposeful marginalization of opposition parties, despite Medvedev’s pro...
Getting the cold shoulder from the art world isn’t much of a surprise when you oversee the banning of exhibitions, allow for the arrest of an artist for taking your image in vain and, lest we forget, flirt occasionally with watercolors, but ...
Will Putin’s visit to the world’s largest democracy ‘resuscitate the flagging relationship’ Russia currently shares with it, as this commentator in the Financial Times puts it? For a considerable period Russia has hel...
TODAY: Regional election promise little advance for opposition parties; anti-Putin petition making waves. Close Yanukovych ally named Ukrainian PM; Russia suspicious of US presence in Kyrgyzstan; buying up land in Paris. US human rights survey fla...
Today’s news that President Medvedev plans to create his own political party may well be raising an eyebrow or two among commentators. Apparently backed by éminence grise Vladislav Surkov (whose alleged role certainly demands anal...
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