I recall reading once in an amusing satire novel based in Latin America, that one local mayor of a major metropolitan city decided that the best way to eliminate police corruption would be to lift all traffic and moving violation laws, so the poli...
The Washington Post is running an editorial on the sale of the Mistral warship by France to Russia, despite Moscow’s open violation of the Sarkozy-brokered ceasefire agreement to end the Russia-Georgia war of 2008. It is a pretty tough...
TODAY: Protesters gather in Baikalsk over fate of paper and pulp mill; Medvedev’s Khanty-Mansisk governor unanimously approved; official released from pretrial detention thanks to Duma guarantor; Russia should attract skilled foreigners; no ...
Russia’s ambassador to NATO, Dmitri Rogozin, has gotten himself a lot of press for his Twitter habits – were he a professional athlete in the NBA or NFL, he would probably be one of those guys who gets fined for it all the time. ...
The Baltic Sea, the site of Gazprom’s $10 billion Nord Stream pipeline project, is one of the world’s most highly polluted waters. Nonetheless, Finnish environmental authorities have given their approval for the project R...
TODAY: Russia and Cuba praise association; Kaliningrad governor postpones meeting; gay and lesbian organizations file lawsuit in Europe; US-Russia relations are not easy; Kirov governor says modernization is beyond economy; Putin wishes luck for V...
The wonderful poet and writer Sasha Raduzhkevich, who left life early, once called everything taking place in Russia «the struggle of a struggle with a struggle». Indeed, in our country everything is a struggle: from evicting militants from the hi...
Well, NATO might not object to Russia buying warships from France, but pretty much everybody else does. While a spokesman for Anders Fogh Rasmussen used the issue to assure everybody that NATO and Russia are harmless pals (one wonders),...
The New York Times comments today on the Russian government’s lip-service to notions of innovation, modernization, its references to stamping out corruption and improving investor confidence, saying that Dmitry Medvedev is effectively just a...
TODAY: Putin promises to clean up the Baltic Sea ahead of Nord Stream; EU visa regulations for Russians; NATO not concerned about French warship sale; inquiry into police beating of pianist; Rogozin takes to Twitter; alcoholism. Speaking at a Balt...
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