I was just reading Mikhail Gorbachev’s latest op/ed in the New York Times, and I was struck by how he focuses on the mere fact that just wanting relations to improve is still a problem. Gorbachev praised Barack Obama’s keynote sp...
There’s a growing volume good material available on Natalia Estemirova’s life. This article in Foreign Policy by Anna Nemtsova is one of them. Later that night in her kitchen, we were looking through pictures on a laptop of Mikha...
TODAY: Medvedev dismisses Kadyrov involvement in Estemirova killing; EU criticizes Medvedev trip to South Ossetia; former eastern European leaders urge Obama to respect their interests; Merkel and Medvedev discuss energy, trade. German Chanc...
Here’s a peculiar story from the Moscow Times: Sergei Kuznetsov Content Group, one of the biggest Russian web studios, has opened a contest called “Drawing the Court” that invites anyone to submit drawings of Khodorkovsky’s...
This is from my latest contribution to the Huffington Post: No one can cast personal blame for a murder when the culprit is an entire system of grand corruption. For years now, self-enriching state officials have gorged themselves on public instit...
David Remnick, editor of the New Yorker and a frequent journalist and author on Russia, has published a new piece about the murder of journalist Natalia Estemirova. At the end of the article, Remnick posted an audio recording of his on-stage...
For some weeks now we have been hearing about the mysterious closure of the Cherkizovsky market in Moscow, as well as the abundant swirling rumors behind the business dispute. The cast of characters is as colorful as can be. There is t...
The typical reactions have started to roll in from the international community in response to Natalia Estemirova’s murder, and it’s hard not to sense the thick surreality of these calls for justice, investigations, and expectations tha...
I regret to pull such a long excerpt, but Tom Parfitt’s column at the Guardian is very interesting today, and contains a number of personal observations you won’t find in any of the wire reports on the recent tragic events in the Cauca...
Considering the tone coming out of Brussels these days, I think it is safe to say that Russia has really blown its trusted “reliable supplier” cover after a few too many supply cuts. This new draft law looks very interesting, suc...
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