A very caustic article by Con Coughlin in the Telegraph argues that Russia cannot be trusted as an ally, i.e. – Washington is wasting its time believing that cooperation on Iran is coming. Not that he has any strong feelings about the ...
TODAY: Medvedev offers little support to opposition on Duma walkout; speculation mounts – was the protest rigged as well as the elections?; Russia faces UN human rights council; international criticism of crack-down on Arkhangelsk historian ...
Marina Galperina at RUSSIA! has dug up quite a few examples of the worst kind of art a cult of personality can produce. Very entertaining stuff. “Shepard Fairey’s own Putin”
This latest dispatch from CNN’s Matthew Chance on Russia’s human rights problem is very well done in that there is no specific news hook beyond the Politkvoskaya murder anniversary of last week, no fresh bodies slain in Moscow or Chech...
A new book has been published about a very interesting period in continental history – Russia’s confrontation with Napoleon in 1812, just one of the many conflicts with Western Europe over the past few centuries which continues to have...
For some reason or another, Russia is feeling very insecure these days, and the #3 silovik in the government, Nikolai Patrushev, is pushing a new military doctrine governing the deployment of nuclear weapons … he thinks it should be looser f...
The other day the Financial Times had a good editorial on Vladimir Putin’s visit to China to sign a plethora of business and energy deals, and naturally, the holy grail of all such diplomacy: becoming a bigger supplier of natural gas t...
TODAY: Clinton turns attention to civil society and gives speech tackling human rights abuses; Walt Whitman statue unveiled; Putin advises against intimidating Iran; opposition politicians stage Duma walk out. Memorial to appeal. Putin...
Here’s an entertaining scene from Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s visit to Russia from Tom Lasseter of McClatchey. I suppose having planted questions like the Putin telethon is a step up from the Obama visit, which was banne...
Not long ago, I published an article on this blog about Timur Idalov, a Chechen law student who had the bad luck to get into a car accident with the wrong person, and now sits in jail despite the overwhelming clarity of his innocence. Если Вы хоти...
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