Medvedev Looks into Russia’s Political Apathy
Somewhere, someone is getting brutally sacked for arranging this photo op.
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Putin’s Disability
Better late than never, Princeton University Fellow Alexander Etkind writes about Vladimir Putin’s Gazeta Wyborcza article on RCW: That article reflects the deep, unresolved problems of Putin’s era: the inability to distinguish between...
Grigory Pasko: A Week in Almaty, Part 3
In the famous film Borat, Kazakhstan is shown, to put it mildly, as a strange state. However, the government of Kazakhstan, extremely irritated by the film at the beginning, now, as they are reporting, has replaced wrath with kindness – it h...
Grigory Pasko: A Week in Almaty, Part 2
[Click here to read Part 1 of this travelogue.] Who is Zhovtis? In recent days, the presidents of Russia and Kazakhstan met in a yurt in Orenburg. Three questions particularly worried Nazarbayev: about join control of the state border between the ...
Of course it’s a deal
Meir Javedanfar at the Guardian has an article entitled “Did the US do a deal with Russia?” Duh. I wonder when Israel sends a wry thank you letter to Poland and the Czech Republic. Should Russia desert Iran’s si...
RA’s Daily Russian News Blast – September 18, 2009
TODAY: US missile defense in Eastern Europe plans officially scrapped in favor of ‘more efficient’ new program. A matter of concession or conviction on Obama’s part? Mixed reaction from former would-be host countries ...
Video: Toughness Gets Results, But Not Cooperation on Iran
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Jailing the Competition
The Economist blows up the difficult-to-ignore gap between Dmitry Medvedev’s epic tome on reform and democracy published on Gazeta.ru and the shortcomings of any action to do something about all these problems. Mr Medvedev’s article ev...
Russia’s Hardliners Feeling Victorious
Michael Stott at Reuters provides some good commentary on the Obama administration’s decision to formerly pull all plans for the missile shield in Eastern Europe. It’s funny how we have found ourselves in a situation with an unne...
RA’s Daily Russian News Blast – September 17, 2009
TODAY: US to modify or jettison missile defense plans? NATO chief to meet with Russian envoy; Lukaschenko sends out mixed messages. South Ossetia denies book burning; think tank leader says Putin could be heading for Brehznev-style dec...
