This one is from Vladimir Ryzhkov, a former Duma deputy, who writes in today’s Moscow Times about the fallout from the report issued last week by the Institute of Contemporary Development, a think-tank closely affiliated with President Dmitr...
This quibble comes from Duma speaker Boris Gryzlov in relation to comments made earlier this week by Finance Minister (and Putin ally) Alexei Kudrin, who is disappointed by United Russia’s left-leaning policies (fyi, a Moscow Times writer to...
TODAY: Russian military general says US missile defense plans are delaying START negotiations; Albright criticizes notion of ‘sphere of influence’; Georgian opposition leader in United Russia deal. Duma to create new council to b...
Writing in the Los Angeles Times, Leon Aron draws a comparison between what President Dmitry Medvedev appears to be attempting to do, and the radical transformation brought about by Mikhail Gorbachev’s policies of glastnost and perestroika.&...
Here is the second video from our exclusive interview series with Dr. Nina Khrushcheva, in which she shares some of her views on the second trial of Mikhail Khodorkovsky. Stay tuned for more later this week.
Not much of a surprise, given last week’s allegations that the spat was nothing but a puppet show, that United Russia and A Just Russia have buried the hatchet. But what you may find surprising is this little soundbite from Finance Min...
TODAY: What next for Kaliningrad? Lawyers accuse telecoms companies of treating dissent as extremism; US defense secretary criticizes sale of French warship to Russia; Medvedev refreshes regional leadership; Berezovsky case being heard in London; ...
Thanks to the creative mind of the writer Rudyard Kipling ,once upon a time there lived the python Kaa. Somewhere in the jungles this was. Kaa was large and frightful. He could hypnotize the Bandar-log monkeys with just his hissing. The Bandar-log...
The UK press have a reputation for baiting Russia somewhat – perhaps a reflection of less-than-healthy diplomatic relations in recent years. Today, the Telegraph has published a bizarre article by one James Corum, a specialist in milit...
Here Streetwise Professor recounts his fortunate opportunity to meet up with the Russian youth activist Oleg Kozlovsky during his speaking tour of the United States (Kozlovsky had been stranded in St. Louis by the snowstorms on the East Coast).&nb...
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