TODAY: Russia looks for greater role in Afghan war; Ingush president pleads for vigilance. Opposition ousted from Moscow race; Rushydro bans reporter; piracy expert flees; war on drinking. Ingush President Yunus-Bek Yevkurov has warned that ...
We’ve covered this Kyrgyzstan double-dipping story a couple of times here, but Alexander Golts latest piece over at RealClearWorld sums it up nicely – including the tale of the embarrassing trip made by Igor Sechin and Anatoly Serdyuko...
Angela Merkel is about as gracious as they come. During the Danzig Summit, there seemed no crime of WWII that she was unwilling to accept responsibility for: “I pay tribute to the 60m people who lost their lives in this war unlea...
This piece in the Financial Times sees positive steps in Vladimir Putin’s efforts to talk about Molotov-Ribbentrop, but observes that the current leadership is still very far away from the comfort level of being able to openly debate Joseph ...
Usually when human rights groups lobby to foreign governments not to extradite a Chechen back to Russia, their concerns are well founded by fears of torture, inadequate legal rights, and a less than shining record on treatment of detainees. ...
Here goes a little piece from openDemocracy about Russia’s triple-pronged security mess, with confrontations broiling from Ukraine to Georgia to the North Caucasus. The authors assume that the leadership is playing with fire in terms o...
TODAY: Poles riled by Russia’s take on war; conciliation comes with recrimination; Beslan families still seeking justice; Lavrov advises against freezing Iran out; Bagapsh verbal attack on Georgian ships; Gazprom tower causing friction. Trop...
Some of the Western media has been picking up on the story of the summer here in Russia: our leaders have declared a war on alcoholism, which some consider to be a certain political grave. Consider the odds: A ticket to the movies in Moscow costs ...
I just spent an entertaining few minutes perusing the amateur photography gallery of President Dmitry Medvedev (the Moscow Times is running a story on this one). So far I think Medvedev’s photos are much better than Vladimir Putin̵...
Yesterday on Foreign Policy Christian Caryl published one of those “Russia-more-isolated-now-than-ever-thanks-to-their-own-policies-of-confrontation” type of articles. We are beginning to see this topic come around and around eve...
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