Russia

November 13, 2009

PASKO: I can’t take any more of the powers’ optimism

Если Вы хотите прочитать оригинал данной статьи на русском языке, нажмите сюда. I was listening to our president and recalled Jerzy Lec: “I am so full of optimism that I can’t take any more of it.” What didn’t Dmitry Medved...
November 12, 2009

Does Time, In Fact, Equal Money?

Ever come across something so brilliant you wish you had thought of it yourself? Well that’s what Seth Hettena has just put together, via sourcing from Vedomosti: an aggregation of the preferred timepieces worn by high-level Russian official...
November 12, 2009

Who Got The Power?

Vladimir Putin has been ranked number 3 in the Forbes list of the most powerful people in the world, President Medvedev comes in 43rd, after Deputy Prime Minister, siloviki chieftain and Rosneft chairman Igor Sechin at number 42. (See the editor&#...
November 12, 2009

Excerpts From State-Of-The-Nation Address

Medvedev’s annual state-of-the-nation address has been hotly anticipated, with talk of electoral reforms surfacing in today’s FT, issues of modernization and the promise of responses to his Go Russia! article to be included. For those ...
November 12, 2009

Axing Governors

Nikolai Zobin in today’s Moscow Times laments that President Medvedev persistently highlights the level of corruption in Russia, whilst, by all accounts, the problem of graft has increased during his Presidency. (See yesterday’s ‘...
November 12, 2009

RA’s Daily Russian News Blast – Nov 12, 2009

TODAY: Medvedev to give state of the nation address, modernization presumed to be key theme; opposition members laud ousting of Governor Rossel; Moscow Mayor to sue opposition politician Vladimir Zhirinovsky over corruption claims. Lavrov intervie...
November 12, 2009

Tracking the shifting power dynamic in the Eurasia landmass

Dmitri Trenin, Director of the Carnegie Moscow Center, dissects Russia’s foreign policy in the November/December issue of Foreign Affairs in an article entitled, “Russia Reborn.” Following is the passage I think resonates the mos...
November 11, 2009

On Russia’s “charm offensive” toward foreign investors

Translated from a Russian stock market report in yesterday’s Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung: Analysts from the investment bank Troika Dialog therefore consider the increasing strength of the American economy as a threat to above-average deve...
November 11, 2009

Fall Of The Berlin Myths

From Foreign Policy’s recent special about the fall of the Berlin Wall, a neat little 4-point piece debunking some of the interpretations of why it collapsed: Here’s a reality check on the most persistent myths: No. 1: It was Ronald Re...