Below is a quote from a cute-ish little article in the Moscow Times about a woman who has built a museum honoring the “good ole days” of the Soviet Union. Some may shudder to think of this kind of nostalgia for the grind of the d...
This piece over at RealClearWorld about Russia’s policy toward Iran is preaching the choir here at this blog: As long as Iran remains a pariah state, Moscow can use Iran’s isolation to sell them their outdated jets and secondhand produ...
I don’t know what’s worse about today’s suicide bombing in Nazran, Ingushetia. The fact that 20 innocent people were murdered and some 140 injured, or the fact that it is these kinds of horrific attacks which serve as justi...
TODAY: Merkel condemns activist murder; explosive violence in Caucasus; South Ossetians encouraged to disarm. Medvedev merciless on Yushchenko; Venezuela and Russia tighten relations; military may scrap underperforming missile. ‘...
Below is an excerpt of a new interview with Mikhail Khodorkovsky published by Newsweek: How do you feel about Vladimir Putin and Deputy prime minister Igor Sechin? Do you think the Yukos case was their handiwork? I think the case was created and c...
Vladislav Surkov is one of the most creative minds inside the Kremlin, and I write with total honesty. No one else seems capable of weaving such elaborate fictions and improvised almost-believable narratives, such as his hit novel Sovereign ...
Tanya Lokshina of Human Rights Watch has a new piece on the Guardian’s Comment is Free taking a look at the recent string of murders in Chechnya. What’s interesting here was the transparent way in which the Chechen state security...
TODAY: US will continue to train Georgian army; EU and Washington comment on Putin’s Abkhazia trip; Merkel expected to address human rights at meeting about Opel; Kadyrov to sue Memorial chief. Yushchenko ‘disappointed’ wit...
This one is fresh off the wire on Angela Merkel’s upcoming meeting with Dmitry Medvedev. Despite strong efforts, Merkel’s past comments on human rights have not produced much. Perhaps this summit, a new approach will be att...
We are pretty impressed with the latest article from Sarah Mendelson of the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) published by Foreign Policy. It is exceptionally easy to whine and moan about conditions of injustice and human...
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