We haven’t paid all that much attention to the father-son spy duo Harold and Nathaniel Nicholson, the former residing in jail on a 23-year sentence, while the son, Nathaniel, today pleaded guilty to charges of money laundering related to the...
TODAY: Putin’s imminent visit to Poland prompts goodwill feeling; Stalin reminder in metro station causes furor; Poland suggests US missile defense plan jacked; Ukraine and Russia disputes to come to a head over Sevastopol? Russia and Belaru...
Boris Nemtsov has an aggressive piece running in the Wall Street Journal today criticizing the Russian government’s handling of the escalating violence in the North Caucasus. Agree with him or not, he is pointing at a very important pr...
TODAY: Russia sets its sights on milestone warship purchase; Putin says ‘no one wants to be a vassal’ of US; Medvedev steadfast on South Ossetia and Abkhazia independence; no illusions on question of international recognition. Ch...
Back on Jan. 20, 2009, a 35-year-old previously convicted criminal named Sergey Vlasenko was driving a MAZ truck with a semi-trailer on the road leading from the Volgogradskoye chaussée to the settlement of Konstantinov of Ramenskoye Rayon of Mosc...
Robert Skidelsky has an interesting piece here on RealClearWorld which takes a look at the recognition of South Ossetia and Abkhazia as newly independent nation states by Russia and Nicaragua, the polemics of confusing state and nation. The ...
TODAY: Russia pushes for recogition of breakaway regions; Ukraine denies allegations of involvement in war; USSR plan to invade Manchester revealed; Russia’s silent monuments to nuclear victims; Arctic Sea, dark spots. Russia’s Foreign...
TODAY: Yushchenko hits back; Russia accuses Ukraine of participation in Georgia war. Medvedev suggests media scaremongering regarding disaster. Seeks the advice of Buddhists. Putin visits Kadyrov; Estemirova commemorated. Two can...
From Masha Lipman in the Washington Post: The upsurge of violence in North Caucasus is a consequence of outrageous abuses of authority by local leaders and the Kremlin’s irresponsible policies. Politically, the Russian government has no worr...
From the Reuters report on Vladimir Putin’s surprise visit to Grozny to stump for the increasingly embattled Chechen appointee Ramzan Kadyrov, and lay flowers at the grave of his father, former Chechen leader Akmad Kadyrov. Also see th...
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