From the Associated Press: When the judge ordered a recess, Kasparov confronted prosecutor Gyulchekhra Ibragimova as she walked past him on her way out. During the brief and tense exchange, Ibragimova told Kasparov she respected him but added he s...
Der Spiegel has supposedly obtained confidential documents written by the EU team led by Ambassador Heidi Tagliavini that is investigating the war last summer. There are quite a few interesting little nuggets in Der Spiegel’s write-up. Here ...
Lukoil will expand Russian energy companies’ push into the European market with a $725 million bid for a 45% stake in a Dutch refinery owned by France’s Total. The stake, previously owned by Dow Chemical, was slated to be purchased by ...
Authorities have accused the Dagestan weekly Chernovik of sympathizing with Islamic militants who have been launching almost daily attacks against police. Chernovik editor Nadira Isayeva told the AP that officials were seeking to close the newspap...
George Soros is pledging $100 million to charities in the former Soviet republics, eastern Europe and the Balkans to help counteract the effects of the global recession. The money will be distributed in 20 countries based on recommendations by loc...
Here’s a write-up of Russia’s beautifully liberal concept of emissions reductions. From The Guardian: Russia plans to release 30 percent more greenhouse gases by 2020 under an emissions target scheme announced on Friday by Presid...
Andrew Sullivan at the Daily Dish has posted a piece alleging that Iranian film director Mohsen Makhmalbaf accused Iran’s contested President, Mahmoud Ahamdinejad, of giving up Iran’s rights in the Caspian Sea to Russia in exchange for...
Remember Junior Sgt. Aleksandr Glukhov, the Russian soldier who sought asylum in Georgia, claiming that he had been mistreated and improperly nourished? And who was then ‘paraded around […] like a championship trophy’ by a ...
Today the defense team for Mikhail Khodorkovsky is running a letter, bearing the signature of Robert Amsterdam, in the global edition of the Financial Times. The story has been covered by Dow Jones and some other news outlets. Below is...
The New York Times editorial board has stepped forth on Russia’s veto of the U.N. resolution extending UNOMIG’s presence in Abkhazia in an opinion entitled “Small Minds in the Kremlin”. I’m going to do my best here to...
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