My thanks to Streetwise Professor for pointing toward this Moscow Times piece by Sergei Guriev and Aleh Tsyvinsky. I especially like the Prof’s comment: “I have a question for the self-styled Russophiles on this site, who c...
TODAY: Investigators deny knowledge of Magnitsky’s illness; protesters hold ‘funeral for democracy’; could YouTube complaint success lead to curbs?; Putin in France; customs union with Belarus and Kazakhstan; expat communities, v...
I was taken aback the other day to open up the Moscow Times website and find an glowing opinion article written by Brian Zimbler, a Moscow based lawyer of the firm Dewey & LeBoeuf. The article, which heaped praise upon Russia as an impro...
Remember back when Vladimir Putin “saved” a group of journalists from a wild Amur tiger, dramatically shooting it on national television? It was probably his most imaginative PR stunt, at least up until he jumped into a submarine...
The Swiss psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung wrote : “He who has achieved a perception of reality is inevitably solitary” [This is a translation of the Russian version of Jung’s essay “The Spiritual Problem of Modern Man”....
Some poll numbers and commentary from Nikolai Petrov: Public trust in the work of Putin fell from a peak of 72 percent in mid-October to 65 percent on November 22, the lowest point since March, according to weekly poll figures posted on the site o...
Writing at the New Republic, Michael Crowley scrounges deep down in the evidence bin for an argument on Russia’s Iran policy: In recent weeks, Barack Obama’s foreign policy has been derided by critics who say he has...
TODAY: Medvedev orders investigation of Magnitsky’s death and calls for broader look at treatment of detainees, fires employees responsible for Ulyanovsk blasts; Iran could take legal action against Russia over missilse; Ismailov’s son...
Would it be foolish to think that all this William Browder/Hermitage stuff would come to an end with just one murdered lawyer? Not quite. This latest story from Catherine Belton in the Financial Times is at once frightening, morally ou...
Yulia Latynina’s column in the Moscow Times points out that Renaissance was also put through the wringer with the same FSB/Interior Ministry scam that Hermitage was … but chose to stay quiet in order to stay in business. Always a...
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