We recently conducted several separate interviews with several Russia experts, including David Satter, Anders Aslund, Svante Cornell, Ariel Cohen, and Paul Goble, to ask them about their impressions of President Dmitry Medvedev’s independenc...
Russia’s main business – arms Grigory Pasko, journalist Not too long ago the magazine Kommersant-Vlast published a detailed article about the volumes or Russian arms export in the years 2004-2008. According to the data of the pub...
The servile Kremlin pool Grigory Pasko, journalist The obsequiousness with which the journalists who are in proximity to the first persons – those who are part of the so-called Kremlin pool – write down everything the first persons say...
The AP has an interesting story about all the political theatre happening on the sidelines of the Georgian opposition protests, which seem to be continuing with no end in sight … is it too early for us to call this the Rose Revolution II?&nb...
It seems that no matter what we are hearing about Chechnya, it is difficult to feel very optimistic about it. Many newspaper editorials are panicking, while the declarations of “victory” seem akin to George W. Bush’s “...
Day after day and hour after hour of the laborious reading aloud of the prosecution’s tome of absurd charges levied against Mikhail Khodorkovsky in this second trial, the state prosecutors today completed the initial reading. Court has...
Russia Today, as we have written many times in the past, is a state-owned propaganda media outlet. That said, Tony Halpin of the Times of London is a talented and straightforward journalist. What happens when you mix the two, to discus...
This one comes from Boris Kagarlitsky in the Moscow Times: Recent political struggles in Eastern Europe remind me of the excellent novel by O. Henry “Cabbages and Kings.” In this work, regimes change and governments are overthrown (or ...
There’s lots of media coverage out there of President Medvedev’s order to withdraw troops from Chechnya … but where will they go? These were the last two paragraphs tucked away at the bottom of a Wall Street Journal article...
As many readers are probably aware, today the Financial Times published a special pull-out section on Russia with about a dozen articles ranging over a wide variety of topics. Overall, the material is well balanced and informative, but not c...
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