I very much enjoyed this book review by Gerard DeGroot published in Sunday’s Washington Post on Michael Meyer’s new book on the fall of the Berlin Wall. It never fails to impress me how much our ideas about this recent period in ...
Roland Oliphant at Russia Profile has tracked down Chris Anderson to talk about the controversial GQ censorship. I am here in Brussels with Karinna Moskalenko, whom will probably have some commentary for me to publish tomorrow. Anderson desc...
It’s September again, and that means the children are heading off to school, and the birds – heading south. And, as tradition goes, Comandante Chávez has embarked on a world tour. This time, the Lt. Col. – the leader of the Boliv...
Some weeks ago, I had noticed a new separation of tone and policy toward Ukraine between Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev, with the former closing deals and renegotiating contracts, while the latter becoming more antagonistic and confrontational...
So why don’t I have more interest in digging around the ghost ship story? It has all the hallmarks of the kinds of stories we like to cover around here – with siloviki, arms, corruption, and cover-ups – but untangling all t...
TODAY: 1998 Starovoitova murder case to be reopened; Moscow city Duma election opposition candidates outraged; Nashi vs Nemtsov thrown out of court. Lavrov positive on reset; new police chief; Moscow mayor to fight weather. According to Bloo...
Andrew Wilson of the European Council on Foreign Relations has a piece on Transitions Online which takes a look at some opinions of Gleb Pavlovsky and Yevgeny Gontmahker to debate what the Pikalyovo incident did and did not teach us about politics...
In this article on openDemocracy.net, Vlad Tupikin exposes the case of Alexei Bychin, whose treatment by the Russian police may reveal a bias in the state’s handling of neo-nazi and anti-fascist youth movements. At the beginning of the white...
This column in the Moscow Times argues that the Stalinist renovation of the Kurskaya metro station is an elections ploy by United Russia to win the votes of the elderly. Interestingly, the author Sergei Obukhov, a duma member from the Commun...
[Again, my apologies for the late posting of this news blast, as I’m covering all the bases on my own today… – Best, James] TODAY: The United States sells even more arms during a recession, Gorbachev’s towering ego, m...
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