I’m not sure I buy all the arguments made by Dmitri Trenin in this piece, though that comment about “raw meat and the taste of blood” is pretty suggestive of what he thinks of the prime minister. I think there are several i...
Alison Smale has published a very thoughtful and nostalgic piece in the International Herald Tribune today, which recalls her experiences living in Moscow under the Soviet Union contrasted with Russian society today, remarking on Russia’s pe...
Owen Matthews has a great essay on Russian corruption and the murder of Sergei Magnitsky published in the The Spectator. He makes some pretty powerful observations, bringing into focus just how tenuous the security is even for a so-called Kr...
TODAY: 2009 in review from the Other Russia; governor appointment causes dismay among opposition; history falls foul of real estate value. Militant attack kills 7 police in Dagestan; Dubai refuses Yamadayev suspects bail; South Ossetia reach...
The influential French philosopher Andre Glucksmann has given a video statement today to voice his support for Mikhail Khodorkovsky as the second show trial against is being carried out in Moscow. Among other comments, Glucksmann says that &...
Lilia Shevtsova has a new piece published in Foreign Policy, examining why Western policymakers and intellectuals have suddenly decided to go soft and play along with Russian authoritarianism under Vladimir Putin: Western intellectuals are even mo...
This video and story below from science blogger Eric Michael Johnson is pretty cool, even if this kind of saccharine nostalgia for the war is waaay overdone, and not an entirely resolved aspect of the Russian psyche. However, something miraculous ...
TODAY: Bomb threat forces train evacuation; is it really possible to ‘uncorrupt’ the police?; analysis of new crackdown on traffic-blocking protests; survey says Uzbeks main victims of race hate crimes. Putin-Medvedev TV satire s...
It is customary for the head of the Russian FSB to give a year-end press conference on the agency’s successes in fighting enemies of the state. The fact that they skipped it this year might mean that 1) 2009 was a very bad year for the...
Everybody is writing about this one little “satire” cartoon which aired on New Year’s in Russia, and trying to figure out if it is meaningful or not. Given that the cartoon of a singing and dancing diarchy contained no real...
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