Could the career of Moscow mayor Yuri Luzhkov, who has surveying Russia’s capital for the past seventeen years be on the rocks? With the recent election, reports circulated that the septuagenarian politician could be facing the axe aft...
As the recent story of the use of the Soviet anthem celebrating Stalin and Lenin in Kurskaya station evinces, praising leaders via verse is a mainstay of state propaganda. So it is no surprise, really, that ‘Uncle Putin‘ is to be...
TODAY: Police arrest weekend protesters; British Foreign Secretary travels to Russia to mend relations; the Stalin question; UN Human Rights Committee urges Russian reforms; simulated attacks on Poland, Kremlin campaigning against Moscow Mayor. At...
British-Russian relations have suffered greatly in recent years, with a series of incidents souring relations: the Alexander Litvinenko scandal, the British Council restrictions, diplomatic exits and various extradition rows. Foreign Secreta...
Today is Russia’s commemoration day for victims of political repression. President Medvedev has paid homage to these victims on his video blog, Ria-Novosti reports: “Millions of people [in the Soviet Union] have died as a result ...
Demonizing NATO is a favorite Kremlin pastime, Michael Bohm says in an op-ed in the the Moscow Times today. Taking Medvedev’s questionable assertion that there are NATO missiles in Europe, pointing at Russia, as a recent case in point ...
TODAY: Russia’s Day of Remembrance for victims of political repression, Medvedev speaks out against justification of Stalin’s acts; ‘Romaphobia’; election fraud case opened in Irkutsk; officers prepare for angry pensioners;...
Foreign Policy lists 10 stories that appear over and over but never seem to actually happen. You HAD to figure there was going to be something in there about Venezuela or Russia, if not both…well, it’s Russia. Seventh on the list: R...
On RFE/RL, Irina Severin ponders the reasons why politicians in ex-Soviet states are so willing to solicit Russian friendliness, when there may be little to thank the Kremlin for in the long-run. Severin examines Moldova, where ex-President ...
AIDS experts are aghast to see that rates of HIV in Russia have doubled in the past 8 years, reports the Washington Post. Russia’s ‘healthy lifestyles’ program and advocacy of abstinence have not been effective in combating...
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