Simon Owens at Bloggasm just emailed us with the news that Gawker is planning on publishing a Russian translation of the disputed Scott Anderson article from GQ. It looks like they are doing it through Google translator, which means that mor...
Richard Sakwa, a professor at Kent University and a fellow at Chatham House, has a new interview with RIA Novosti. Sakwa recent published a book on the case of Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Yukos. “Russia historically has had a problematica...
Related to the post below, here is the audio. My guess is that GQ will probably publish the full text of Anderson’s article online to save face in, oh, about six hours or so.
Scott Anderson is a pretty accomplished journalist and author. You can read some of his stuff here and here, and read a profile here. So why, after he spent months researching and writing an article on Russia entitled “Vladimir P...
Today somebody linked me over to a little thing on BoingBoing, which led me to this spectacular gallery of photos by Sergey Maximishin. As the editor wrote, “Sergey Maximishin’s pictures of Russia are incredible, from the kitschy...
[Our apologies on the late posting of this news blast, our contributing editor is on a well deserved vacation. 🙂 – James] TODAY: Lots of tennis stories, more of the run around on the Politkovskaya case, journalists gone wild, fights o...
Here goes a bit from Robert Amsterdam’s latest piece on Huffington Post regarding the conviction of Yevgeny Zhovtis. Just a few years back, a savagely offensive and popular comedy starring Sascha Baron Cohen caused extraordinary embarrassmen...
Some more history rousing on the Gdansk visit by Vladimir Putin in this week’s Economist: At this week’s commemorative ceremonies in Gdansk, Mr Putin offered his Polish hosts some comfort (see article). Unlike Russian official media in...
As Grigory Pasko recently reported on this blog, President Dmitry Medvedev will sure have his hands full in his latest campaign to tackle the problem of Russian alcoholism. This piece from Megan K. Stack in the Los Angeles Times reiterates t...
UPDATE: A commenter points out that this might not be a story at all... Remember the Ghost Ship story? How all the explanations just didn’t seem to add up? The one Russian military journalist to piece together a coherent theory s...
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