Fred Weir has a very interesting take on the second trial of Mikhail Khodorkovsky published in the Christian Science Monitor: “It looks like Putin is pathologically afraid of Khodorkovsky,” says Boris Nemtsov, a former deputy prime min...
TODAY: Rasmussen says NATO will never attack Russia; new high-speed train links Moscow and St Petersburg; Georgia demolishes Soviet memorial; Gordon Brown welcomes investigation into Magnitsky’s death; Medvedev and Obama to discuss treaty in...
Yevgeny Kiselyov has an interesting take on Yegor Gaidar’s legacy in the Moscow Times: There has never been a case in Russian history where economic, political or social reforms have been carried out from the bottom-up. Reforms in Russia hav...
TODAY: EU ceremony awards Memorial with human rights prize; Medvedev granted right to send troops abroad; less siloviki in the Kremlin post-Putin; NATO visit yields a cool response from Medvedev on Afghanistan; START treaty won’t be signed t...
I am not sure what value I can add to the passing of the former PM and economic architect of the Russian Federation, Yegor Gaidar, to everything else that is being published today. I just know that I shouldn’t let it go by unmentioned....
The New York Post is running a sensationalist piece today about the gymnast Alina Kabaeva giving birth to a son, which may or may not have something to do with the unconfirmed speculation of involvement with Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. We’...
TODAY: NATO Secretary-General in Moscow; START treaty will not be signed this week; Browder praises Medvedev, Yakunin slams Browder; civic police force; Izvestia accused of extremism; children’s ombudsman highlights rights issues. The Kremli...
Jaime Suchlicki, Director of the University of Miami’s Institute for Cuban and Cuban-American Studies, has a paper summarising the Russia-Venezuela-Cuba-China-Iran relationship entitled, “The Cuba-Venezuela Challenge to Hemispheric Sec...
TODAY: Medvedev celebrates Sakharov, activists say their work is more dangerous now; European Security Treaty ‘smacks of a trap’; tiny island recognizes breakaway states in exchange for aid; NATO chief in Moscow to rebuild relations; f...
The construction of the facilities of the Sochi olympiad is picking up speed. So fast, indeed, that chips are beginning to fly. Together with forests, naturally. Forest preserves, ancient forests, eternally green… Incidentally, the only thin...
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