The Washington Post has an editorial on Putin’s annual winter punishment for Belarus: Of course, Mr. Putin and his spokesmen insist that this is merely a commercial dispute that involves ending Russian subsidies. That’s also what they ...
The following is an exclusive translation of an article from the German newspaper Die Welt by Manfred Quiring, which takes a look at the current controversies over prison conditions and dying prisoners, and what President Medvedev is trying to do ...
TODAY: Putin-critical children’s ombudsman ousted; Medvedev’s governor appointments suggest no clean-up; how a ‘reset’ doesn’t seem to mean a re-START; pressure on poultry talks. Russia’s ‘dirty war&#...
This Ed Lucas piece on how much better Russian people are able to withstand cold temperatures is really quite amusing, attracting praise even from the Putinophile set. I used to visit Moscow’s Sandunovskaya baths, the oldest and grandest in ...
Amy Knight, a longtime Russia reporter and author, has a very great blog posting over at the New York Review of Books on the death of lawyer Sergei Magnitsky. In early December, amid growing public outcry over Magnitsky’s death, President Dm...
So what is the conventional thinking behind the new U.S. administration pursuing the “reset” of relations with Russia? We are likely to hear well-intentioned words about opening up a new chapter in bilateral relations, and improv...
Think tank alert! Dmitri Trenin and Sam Greene have published a brand new 8-page policy analysis paper entitled (Re)Engaging Russia in an Era of Uncertainty. The authors debate how the economic crisis has distracted the attention of th...
So as I whittle away at my Friday afternoon over here eagerly awaiting closing time, I came across a YouTube channel which has recently uploaded tons of high quality videos of 1970s television broadcasts of May Day parades and other state holiday ...
I have been following some of this news about the resumption of the first direct flights between Moscow and Tbilisi since the 2008 invasion. Though they were supposed to start several days ago, each government decided to play around just a f...
TODAY: Abuse of office in Kamchatka; police reform a pipe dream? Stop and START; deja vu in the New York Times; Russia issue crops up again in Ukraine presidential race; South Ossetia emphasizes Russian ties; Poland spy story; Christmas Medv...
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