Russia

August 19, 2009

RA’s Daily Russian News Blast – August 19, 2009

TODAY: Security shake-up in Ingushetia; blame put on local police; Russia does tit-for-tat on diplomats; Medvedev and Peres meet to discuss Middle East, Russia to reevaluate plan for weapons to Iran?; hope for power plant disaster survivors wanes....
August 18, 2009

Punk Music Still Not At Deep Purple Status in Russia

Doesn’t matter what you see Or into it what you read You can do it your own way If it’s done just how I say Independence limited Freedom of Choice is made for you my friend Freedom of Speech is words that they will bend Freedom with th...
August 18, 2009

Grigory Pasko: Holiday of Champions

Turkey. Holiday. All Inclusive… Grigory Pasko, journalist Если Вы хотите прочитать оригинал данной статьи на русском языке, нажмите сюда. In Antalya (Turkey), the International Congress of Journalists has ended. As a rank-and-file participan...
August 18, 2009

Blaming the Ingush Police

About 20 people were murdered and 138 injured, most of them police officers, when a suicide bomber drove a truck containing some 400 kilos of explosive into the police station.  Unfortunately for the freshly bereaved surviving family members ...
August 18, 2009

The Benevolent Tsar and the Unruly Noblemen

From Nikolai Petrov’s column in the Moscow Times: President Dmitry Medvedev, however, has not been able to manage a similar line of communication with the people, even with the careful selection of participants and the prior agreement of que...
August 18, 2009

Russian Net Nanny More Like a Big Brother

Just caught this bit of news of the new Russian search engine, playfully entitled “Gogul,” which will allow parents the ability to carefully restrict which websites their kids have access to … although parents are not the ones wh...
August 18, 2009

RA’s Daily Russian News Blast – August 18, 2009

TODAY: Violence explodes in Ingushetia; Interior Minister fired. Wall rumored to be built between Georgia and Abkhazia; Georgia to leave CIS.  Russian diplomats expelled.  Dozens missing in hydropower plant disaster.  Ship found. Pr...
August 17, 2009

A Brezhnevian Detachment from Reality

I can understand some complaints coming from the Putinistas and even the moderates that criticism from the opposition can begin sound a bit like a broken record:  the same laundry lists over and over, just updated with the latest murdered hum...
August 17, 2009

Georgia is not Mexico

Superblogger Matt Yglesias thinks that we should start calling a spade a spade in terms of U.S. military training for Georgia – why bother pretending like it is for operations in Afghanistan?  That first point is well taken (clearly the...