When are these reactionary regional leaders ever going to learn that the best way to “protect the integrity of the president” is not to freak out over every small protest or publication of criticism? One would assume that not eve...
Yulia Latynina has a new column in the Moscow Times taking a look at Russia’s foreign policy toward North Korea. We love Yulia, but perhaps my only complaint may be is that she is much too moderate and measured in her words. She ...
Today a former KGB spy, living in Canada since 1997, has taken refuge inside a church in Vancouver in a desperate move to avoid deportation of himself and his family. The Canadian authorities are seeking to send Mikhail Lennikov, his wife Ir...
Wait, I thought this stuff only happened every New Year’s? Though the heating of homes won’t be an issue in June/July, you know how the Europeans are about gas-fired kitchens… From Reuters: “Gazprom will only su...
It’s no mystery that Russian journalists are an endangered species. Beyond the headlines grabbed by the famous cases of Paul Klebnikov and Anna Politkovskaya, there are so many more who are threatened, beaten, harassed, and forced out of wor...
Here’s a quick line from an amusing Wall Street Journal piece about Alfa Bank’s undiminished swagger amid the other fallen oligarchs: Mr. Fridman says Alfa works within the law and dismisses the criticism as “PR” by Alfa...
Some more scary stuff from Memorial and the Russian government’s transparency to the historical archives, notes Paul Goble’s blog over at the Moscow Times: In an article in the current issue of Moscow’s “New Times,” N...
Every once in a while, it looks as though the Russian anti-trust authorities appear as though they are a normal, independent institution tasked with protecting the integrity of markets from monopolistic practices of business. On the other ha...
A few weeks back we reported on the case of reporter Yelena Maglevannaya (Grigory Pasko also interviewed her), and this week it looks like she is seeking political asylum in Finland. Whenever you have journalists who are fleeing the country ...
We knew that as soon as Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez started talking about introducing a new currency, the “sucre,” for the ALBA, I knew that it wouldn’t be long before we saw Russia get in on this new currency talk. In...
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