Good analysis from Douglas Birch of the Associated Press: So Moscow has walked a tightrope: joining Iran in scolding the West for its alleged imperial ambitions and blocking sanctions on the one hand, while warning Tehran it will not tolerate a nu...
Yesterday I blogged that neither Vladislav Surkov nor Michael McFaul are reading from the same script as they were a few years ago. Here’s a good example how, buried in an FT story on the Iran sanctions doublespeak: This fear seemed to...
Here goes a subtitled video montage of the one of the first exhibitions of all the art produced as part of a contest of student artists visiting the second trial of Mikhail Khodorkovsky.
TODAY: Did Clinton get what she wanted?; media reports possible silence for sanctions deal; START treaty progress. Georgia accused of abetting al-Qaida; Putin ‘satisfied’ with job. German official castigates Medvedev for in...
From the Financial Times: “The Opel deal was for Russia a classic divide and conquer,” the senior banker says. “They got the Germans to betray their other European partners. They said, ‘If you do a deal with us we won’...
Writing in the New Republic, Barron YoungSmith debunks the argument coming from conservative opponents of the US signing a replacement for the scuppered START treaty with Russia out of the idea that it is aimed at constraining America’s abil...
Sometimes you don’t really have to read the news to know what’s happening. Reuters: Embattled Russia rights activists ask Clinton for help Wall Street Journal: Clinton Presses Russia on Iran Telegraph: Washington to tone do...
Well one can say a lot of things about the Russian mafia leader Vyacheslav K. Ivankov, but you wouldn’t say he didn’t have an impact on the country, as his funeral today brought out crowds of hundreds. In this news clip, there ar...
The Nord Stream pipeline is back in the news this week, and unfortunately it’s not main stream press reviews of Grigory Pasko’s documentary. The Financial Times was carrying a three-frame photo in its special Russia business pull...
There’s a great piece running in the Financial Times today on one of the most shadowy and interesting figures in Russian politics, the ideologist and gray cardinal Vladislav Surkov. I especially thought that the comparison with Karl Ro...
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