Rossiyskaya Gazeta, the Russian government’s very own mouthpiece newspaper, has purchased itself a nice big supplement section in the British newspaper the Telegraph called “Russia Now.” (This supplement has been running fo...
For the time being, things like repeated referendums and organized mayoral elections may work for the likes of Hugo Chavez and Vladimir Putin, but what will these and other authoritarian-leaning leaders of the world come up with in ten years time ...
Perhaps we should be a little more economical with our use of the d-word. This comes from Fred Weir’s blog at CSM: “In the final analysis, Pakhomov’s victory was an expression of public support for Putin, and his margin of ...
How much does it cost to think? The real cost of ambitious gas projects is surely unknown Grigory Pasko, journalist Если Вы хотите прочитать оригинал данной статьи на русском языке, нажмите сюда. On Lenta.Ru I read: «The cost of construction of th...
It shouldn’t be any mystery to readers who won the mayoral election in Sochi this weekend. There was just one candidate, the incumbent Anatoly Pakhomov, who had the support of the Kremlin, meaning that no other competition was even fea...
Alexei Bayer’s column in the Moscow Times today brings up a rather eloquently concise framing of how Western and Russian perspectives differ over the roles of states and markets … being that the fundamental agreement may have something...
It can be tough work to continue coming up with new ways to fake the democratic process … after a while, the voters seem to wonder “why bother?” Today, in Sochi, all eyes are on the mayoral election, which has been strongly...
Russia’s Minister of Finance Alexei Kudrin just got served during a visit to Washington D.C. with a Federal Court subpoena to testify in the trial against Mikhail Khodorkovsky in Russia. This story was broke by Reuters: “On April...
Below is an exclusive translation of a breaking story from the Spanish press. First published in El Pais, and also covered by several other outlets, the story concerns Antonio Valdés-García, a Spanish-Russian dual citizen who says he was beaten an...
The Financial Times quotes some reactions to the early parole of Svetlana Bakhmina: “I think this decision is political,” Sergei Mitrokhin, head of the liberal Yabloko party, told Reuters. “It could be one of the signals given by...
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