I don’t usually do back to back links to the same sources, but this news is just too big (see the original source in Russian here). From Yevgeny Bendersky blogging at RCW: Newly appointed Chief of Staff of the Russian Land Forces, Lieu...
Following the train bombing, Vladimir Putin did the tough guy thing again, and said he would “break the spine” of the terrorists behind the attack. Blogging over at RCW, Greg Scoblete compiles some of his other favorite Putinisms...
Phillip Pan’s piece in the Washington Post today looks at the reactions to the publishing of lawyer Sergei Magnitsky’s letters detailing the cruelty and repression of his time in prison. Since Magnitsky’s death, though, the...
TODAY: Perm death toll rises to 117 as Putin demands inspections; Yukos case coming back to haunt the Kremlin?; Magnitsky’s prison letters spark nationwide attention; internet provider admits to blocking ‘extremist’ sites; Putin&...
The New York Times has a piece today on Dmitry Medvedev’s proposal to reduce Russia’s 11 time zones: “We have to look at this from a biological standpoint, how it is going to affect health,” said Yekaterina Degtyareva, 27, ...
James P. Rubin has a good opinion article in Newsweek, which takes a shot at Barack Obama’s realist tendencies in foreign policy and the swift abandonment of human rights by the new administration. Given the scary results of a recent p...
The wonderful Andy Young at Siberian Light does something that nobody else can really do – sail a straight line right across the vast and often bitter ideological divide in the blogosphere (do we still use that word?). Over the years h...
The video below is not for the faint of heart – some raw footage from inside the Lame Horse nightclub fire. A fierce blame game has already started, with government angrily accusing irresponsible business owners, while the private sect...
TODAY: Perm mourns 112 victims of nightclub fire; START treaty expires with no replacement; salary caps for governors?; racial killings see first drop in seven years; policeman suicide; tabloid hacked; is Russia behind climate change email theft? ...
Who are some of Russia’s greatest thinkers? Whomever they may be, they got left off a long list by the magazine Foreign Policy. Blogger poemless has a good long post running down some of the potential names from the Russian brain...
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