TODAY: 70th anniversary of the outbreak of World War Two – officials meet in Gdansk for carve up of history; Putin acknowledges ‘immoral’ treaty and Katyn suffering; NATO receptive to plans for Russian defense; Stalin’s gra...
Recently someone left a comment on one of my blog entries, prompting me to respond to address two questions: “Why do many Russians love the power? Under what circumstances might the Putinite siloviki ever go down?“ First let̵...
From the looks of it, neither Vladimir Putin nor Donald Tusk want the Poland-Russia summit in Gdansk tomorrow on the WWII anniversary to turn into a slugfest … but seemingly everybody else does. From Reuters: Polish media reacted angri...
Most people would say that WWII started on Sept. 1, 1939, but for Russia, the Great Patriotic War began on June 22, 1941. How Vladimir Putin handles this challenging 70th anniversary of the Nazi invasion of Poland at a commemoration event in...
In their latest piece for Newsweek, Owen Matthews and Anna Nemtsova do an excellent job explaining all the reasons why Russia has tumbled toward authoritarianism and confrontational foreign policy: it serves the unending quest for respect. &...
This just came over the air from Svetlana Gubanova at Echo Moskvy with regard to the trial of Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev: “For any Muscovite or visitor to the Russian capital, they say, it has become a sign of good taste not onl...
TODAY: NATO head upbeat on relations with Russia; Medvedev looks to imams for help with Caucasus Islamic insurgents; suggests a TV channel. Russia on the defensive regarding WW2; 70th anniversary of its start to prove a diplomatic minefield?...
According to Daniel Erikson of the Inter-American Dialogue, as told to Radio Free Europe: “If you look at Russia under Putin there is a remarkable similarity to Venezuela under Chavez in so far as democratically elected leaders have systemat...
What is happening in Iran certainly reminds us of another trial in a neighboring country. From the New York Times: The government should be ferreting out and putting an end to these abuses. Instead, it continues to conduct cruel mass show tr...
Russia Profile is running one of those panel things they do with various experts on the first decade of Russia under Vladimir Putin. The praise, as may be expected, is effusive and largely uncritical. Sometimes its even convincing (fun...
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