Today has not been a good day for the respectability of Russia’s organizations. Firstly we have the weekend’s police corruption You Tube video, whose revelations about alleged case fabrications and all manner of other disho...
RFE/RL follows the movements of former police major and new You Tube star Aleksei Dymovsky, whose campaign against corruption in the police forces has caused a storm of controversy. According to an article by Brian Whitmore, Dymovsky avowed ...
TODAY: Kremlin admits police failings; criminal cases opened into state corporations’ use of funds; Moscow corruption; slow technology progress; Rossel replaced; Kalashnikov a ‘hero’, says Medvedev. The scandal sparked by Major A...
The Spanish newswire EFE is carrying a small story about how Russia has become the second-largest destination for exports from Uruguay after Brazil. From the Russia side of things, this will likely remain below the radar, but it is worth noting fr...
The last week of October was a tense time for the bureaucrats at Minprirody, Russia’s Ministry for the Protection of the Environment and Natural Resources, and naturally for Minister Yuri Petrovich Trutnev. He went all the way to Cape Town, ...
One of my favorite blogs, Business Monitor International’s Risk Watchdog, had a post yesterday discussing the wider historical context of the Berlin Wall’s fall. The discussion of the persistence of Communism and the comparison between...
This in from the Wall Street Journal on the somewhat disturbing, political dimensions of Russia’s Nord Stream pipeline. Approved just last week by Finland and Sweden after ecological concerns were overcome, the project is now ready to ...
War as a means of securing energy resources is a familiar narrative. Peace as a means of securing energy resources is rather less typical . . . The New York Times today has a wonderfully ironic story on how decommissioned Soviet weapons are ...
President Medvedev proclaimed in his recent Der Spiegel interview that there is little difference between the rights record of Russia and that of its European counterparts: ‘Our values are the same as yours. I don’t see any major diffe...
TODAY: Youtube policeman faces slander investigation; Omsk students threatened with expulsion; Committee to Protect Journalists urge global attention to threats against media in Russia. Merkel thanks Gorbachev; Medvedev approves new military bill;...
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