“History does not repeat itself, but it does rhyme.” – Mark Twain David Satter, Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute and visiting scholar at SAIS, has done an amazing thing to mark the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin ...
Here’s a quick extract from President Medvedev’s interview with Der Spiegel, (the whole of which can be read here) where he discusses Putin’s eyebrow-raising comments about how power is allotted in Russia: SPIEGEL: Putin’s ...
The Wall Street Journal ran a piece the other day by Masha Geesen, adapted from her latest book, about the culture of mathematics during Soviet times and how it evolved into a post-Soviet brain drain, with the Poincaré Conjecture as the centerpiec...
Today and indeed for the past week the press has been awash with articles reflecting on the fall of the Berlin Wall, from the issue of who got the ball rolling, how Eastern Europe and Russia have fared post-Soviet collapse, the question of nostalg...
Here is the Youtube post by disillusioned police officer Alexei Dymovskiy urging the Prime Minister to address the issue of endemic corruption in law enforcement.
Apparently Oleg Deripaska does not hold the belief that bad publicity is better than no publicity. After Vedomosti published an article on October 26 claiming that the company had debts of just under $6 billion for last year, journalists at ...
TODAY: Policeman loses job after flagging up police corruption on Youtube address to Putin; Rusal harassing the press?; personal grudge alleged motive for Markelov murder; Moscow rights groups could lose premises. Berlin wall collapse annive...
Today, an important Russian business leader is giving a speech that we have obtained an advanced copy of and that we are happy to provide to our readers. Transcript is accessible at the following link: 2009Nov06.Igor.Yurgens.Elliott-Lecture.pdf
Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov is apparently ‘astonished’ to hear that Poland’s Foreign Minister, Radoslaw Sikorski, asked NATO and the US to deploy troops in Europe to provide ‘some strategic reassuranceR...
Details are beginning to emerge about the the two suspects held on suspicion of gunning down fearless human rights lawyer Stanislav Markelov and Novaya Gazeta intern Anastasia Baburova on January 19th this year. It appears that one of the pa...
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