The full version of this article can be read on the Huffington Post. While the fast friendship and personalism between Sarkozy and Medvedev are important, the motives behind the alliance have been obscured (for example, it is difficult to believe ...
TODAY: Confusion over Olympic Head’s resignation; Yabloko beard protest leads to arrests; Stalin posters to appear in Moscow, but not Irkutsk; Yukos case to be heard at European Court of Human Rights; Sarkozy’s reasons for warship sale...
Alexander Arkhangelsky is consistently one of the more thoughtful and original voices on Russia out there, and – here’s the weird part – he actually works for the state-owned news agency RIA Novosti. Certainly there is a ma...
Somewhere in a plush Italian villa, Berlusconi is feeling very jealous. Cue up a Barry White album for this blog post on the Times of London by Charles Bremner. What a difference three years make. Campaigning for election in early 2007 Nicol...
Mikhail Khodorkovsky published an opinion article in Nezavisimaya Gazeta today. Below is an excerpt from the English translation, the full version of which can be found here. Every year, the judicial-and-police conveyor belt devours the huma...
TODAY: Medvedev in France, Sarkozy claims similar objectives; 5,000-strong rally in Kaliningrad; Rogozin on Russia’s ‘privileged interests’; Media rights group claims Sochi journalists are being pressured into blocking certain co...
But they had better put on their thinking caps. From Ronald D. Asmus of the German Marshall Fund in the Moscow Times: And what is Western policy? In reality, the West today no longer has a grand strategy toward the East. The moral and strate...
Oh boy. We’ve seen Kremlin doublespeak many times, but this is pretty close together Medvedev on Reuters: Russia says it may consider Iran sanctions Lavrov on Reuters, hours earlier: Russia says still room for diplomacy with Iran...
I completely agree with the big guy here – further I don’t really see how it improves athletic performance to threaten, insult, and fire everyone involved over the poor outing at the Olympics. Probably the best solution is more s...
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