Ronald Asmus has a good editorial on the evolving security dynamic between Russia and the European Union and United States published in the Washington Post: Europe’s bloody history illustrated that spheres of influence do not produce real se...
Dmitry Medvedev went on television the other day to attack Russia’s notoriously inefficient state-owned companies. It was a classic public tongue-lashing – the kind we used to see the place-holding PM Viktor Zubkov give to unfort...
Thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of people in Russia wear a military or militarized form of dress. Although, common sense would dictate that they shouldn’t be wearing the uniform. For example, security guards or doctors, journalists o...
TODAY: Patriarch speaks out in favor of gay rights; Church looking for ways to respond to two priest murders this month; Lebedev ruling meets with pessimism; state services available online; Georgian memorial to be rebuilt in Moscow; Latynina on G...
Many Russia watchers were likely surprised to wake up this morning to read the news that Russia’s highest court has struck down the 2003 arrest of Platon Lebedev, Mikhail Khodorkovsky’s business partner at Yukos, as a groundless, illeg...
TODAY: Supreme Court annuls Lebedev arrest; Butyrka prisoner talks about his experiences; business as usual in Moscow despite harsh weather; mono-city of Revda to be closed down; START treaty speculation; Stalin, Gaidar. The presidium of Russia...
Looks like enrollment of Russia language majors is surging in the United States … perhaps the best thing for our friends in the field is that Russia remain adversarial toward the U.S. in order to keep up interest from students. From In...
The Financial Times has cool article about the challenges of changing time zones, including some info on Dmitry Medvedev’s proposal, which seeks to improve business and logistics of the far East. The economic advantages of convenient tempora...
Vladimir Ryzhkov’s column in the Moscow Times points to a very bad year in terms of human rights and corruption in Russia. It’s really quite a staggering list. Throughout the year, Medvedev was incapable of managing the country&#...
Grigory Pasko is the Russia correspondent for this blog, and a one-time political prisoner following an article published in the Japanese press about the Russian Navy illegally dumping nuclear waste in the Sea of Japan in 1993. Several years...
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