TODAY: Putin scolds United Russia deputies over false promises; Lavrov fails to mount anti-NATO bid, Rasmussen suggests that Russia could help NATO in Afghanistan; Moscow to start up center to protect property rights; writers say they were hired b...
At the end of January, my editor James met up with Dr. Nina Khrushcheva at the New School in New York to shoot an exclusive interview on variety of topics in modern Russian politics. The quote which I have put in the title of this post is ju...
A fiction author of the most vivid imagination would have a tough time coming up with a story as satirical as the recent 10,000-strong protests in Kaliningrad followed by political theatrics of the state-approved opposition, as Speaker of the Fede...
What’s the deal with Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov’s sudden thirst for demolition, eviction, and intimidation? The neighbourhood of Rechnik, on the outskirts of Moscow, home to a number of houses varying in size and value, was subjec...
Aha! So there is method in yesterday’s Mironov madness. It appears the fantastic war of words between rival Kremlin supporters was designed explicitly to produce the headlines that it did – to draw attention away from the p...
TODAY: Sweden wants explanation on 1990s waste dumping; Russian military base to be stationed in Serbia? Kremlin still pushing for European security treaty; Medvedev weighs in on Rechnik dispute; Gorbachev on Afghanistan; Ukraine tense ahead of Su...
Grigory Pasko has a new one over at Dialogue of Trust: During the past three years it has become not only fashionable in Russia to keep an online diary – it has also become quite risky. The restrictions on free information in Russia led to a...
Sergei Mironov should have known better than to try exercising his free speech muscle. Mironov, leader of pro-Kremlin party A Just Russia, has infuriated rival pro-Kremlin party, United Russia, by casually suggesting that it would be old-fas...
Boris Kagarlitsky in today’s Moscow Times picks apart the current fad for talking about ‘innovation’ in Russia’s political sphere. Former and current finance ministers Anatoly Chubais and Alexei Kudrin have been bandy...
Solidarity co-leader Garry Kasparov discusses Russia’s European integration, privatization, democracy and oligarchy in an interview published by The Other Russia this week. Regarding the EU, Kasparov thinks that cooperation with Russia...
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