Paul Goble blogs about a Vedomosti article which reveals the early findings of a new report, interviewing some 100 different members of the ruling United Russia party: The Moscow newspaper obtained an advance copy of the report and quotes liberall...
Dmitry Medvedev showed his angry side today on state television, as he excoriated Russia’s regional governors and demanded that they get on top of unemployment and wage arrears problems, such as those which provoked the recent protests in Pi...
Yale economist Aleh Tsyvinski writes in the Moscow Times about his impressions coming out of the St. Petersburg Economic Forum: Not surprisingly, the most anticipated speech at the St. Petersburg forum was from President Dmitry Medvedev. First, we...
After reading this morning about the horrible, horrible murder of Justice Aza Gazgireeva in Nazran, North Caucasus (a merciless shooting in front of her childrens’ kingergarten, with even a 1-year-old receiving a bullet wound), I knew that i...
Anne Applebaum has published a lengthy review of Spies: The Rise and Fall of the KGB in America, by John Earl Haynes, Harvey Klehr, and Alexander Vassiliev in the New Republic. She includes in her review a discussion of the “insaneR...
Matthias Schepp of Der Spiegel writes about the threats facing the staff of Novaya Gazeta: Olga seemed simultaneously awestruck and wary as she ran her fingers across the envelope. The sender seemed to be important: the “Presidential Adminis...
Wow. A very important article in the Washington Post by Lev Gudkov, Igor Klyamkin, Georgy Satarov and Lilia Shevtsova. More comments coming later. We object, for example, to the basic proposition of calling for a return to realpolitik because some...
Maryana Torocheshnikova writes about the trial of Mikhail Khodorkovsky in OpenDemocracy: The new charge against Khodorkovsky and Lebedev is, among other things, based on many documents containing absurd factual errors. As an example the defence hi...
Alexei Kuznetsov, one of CBS’s correspondents in Russia has written about Vladimir Putin’s emergency action in the struggling town of Pikalyovo – and what kind of sign this sends to the rest of the Russian population getting the ...
Yesterday we dug up some quotes from Chris Weafer speculating on the Kremlin’s “unfinished business” in taking over control of Norilsk Nickel and creating a state-owned mining giant. Here Mikhail Prokhorov of Onexim Group (...
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