The Moscow Times has some follow up on the story of the historical website www.hrono.info getting shut down by authorities (the owner later moved to another server and got back up an running). Here’s the interesting bit which ties the ...
TODAY: Medvedev reiterates warning to Georgia as tensions simmer; Russia will not impose sanctions on Iran at Washington’s behest; activists slam ‘repressive’ army measures; hrono up again. ‘I would not like to specially re...
The Financial Times has an interesting one on Magna’s gamble (as a Trojan horse for Russia) to snap up GM’s interests in Opel to give the weakened Oleg Deripaska “ownership” of what would be the largest car manufacturer in ...
I ask for your benevolent forgiveness, in that this video is already a horrifyingly 48 hours old. Hopefully not everything Nemtsov says, nor his own career itself, has become obsolete over the course of this staggering delay. Embedded video ...
Dmitry Solovyov’s article on the Russian military’s conscription program in the Moscow Times is beyond words, especially the detail about Anton Kuznetsov. Anyone who can find more info on that story, just let us know … I on...
Paul Goble is covering this story about the extremist group, Movement Against Illegal Immigration (DPNI), which is making a bid for mainstream respectability. The success and acceptance of this group is, well, very disappointing. DPNI ...
From a Russian diplomat reacting to the signing of the Nabucco natural gas pipeline project: “We are of the opinion that any gas pipeline network should be based not on geopolitical considerations, but on economic realities… which is n...
I earlier had meant to link over to this holocaust article by Timothy Snyder published in the New York Review of Books, which although a few weeks old, still seems relevant given yesterday’s news of the Russian government shutting down yet a...
As RA argued yesterday, more than profit seeking, logistical expediency, or simple market value, Europe and Turkey finally agreed to build the Nabucco natural gas pipeline mainly as a response following years of heavy handed Russian conduct in ene...
TODAY: Medvedev visits South Ossetia in move called ‘provocation’ by Saakashvili, flouting US comments about unity of Georgia?; British academics bemoan closure of history website; Bolshoi’s musical director quits Medvedev has ma...
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