From Vladimir Ryzhkov’s column in the Moscow Times on the new history commission: Now, the Kremlin leaders are reviving the Stalinist cult in order to justify their own violations of human rights. They believe that a “firm hand” ...
Its good to see Evgeny Morozov blogging over at FP – we’ve always liked his work, as there should be more written about the impact of the blogosphere on politics in authoritarian states. Earlier this week he had a great post up a...
Just a week after President Dmitry Medvedev creates a commission to guard against the falsification of history, he is attending the opening of the virtual library of St. Petersburg – where some 6.5 million rare Russian historical documents w...
Responding to the calls of a concerned neighbor, this week the Russian police entered one family’s apartment in Chita, Siberia, to discover an appalling case of alleged child abuse: a five-year-old girl (estimated age) that had been co...
The New York Times reports on the opening of the new Shchuchye chemical weapons facility in Siberia, a project funded by $1 billion in U.S. aid money to safely decommission dangerous Soviet era weapons that could easily fall into the wrong hands (...
Roman Kupchinsky has a piece up on Jamestown about Gazprom’s extensive network of European lobbyists – atop which of course sits Mr. Gerhard Schröder, the highest paid lobbyist/fixer who now sits on the board of TNK-BP as well as Nord ...
TechCrunch has posted up this video interview with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his new Russian partner Yuri Milner of Digital Sky Technologies (see Bob’s post from yesterday). Also see the FT Tech blog for a little more info about...
Daniel Kimmage writes in Foreign Policy today about the myth of mutual interests between Russia and the United States. We’ve held some of these arguments in the past, such as the idea that Russia has completely opposite intentions with...
Yesterday I linked to a Moscow Times piece about a Polish man who received a pretty serious thrashing because he refused to yield to car while crossing the street in a crosswalk. An anonymous reader emailed me the following two additions to ...
Tuesday’s big news was that the Russian investment group Digital Sky Technologies purchased a 2% stake of preferred shares in the immensely popular social media platform Facebook. But who is this group, and who’s behind it? ...
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