Yulia Latynina addresses the recent news of a “review” being initiated by Igor Sechin over Norilsk Nickel deals, meaning that the government is preparing to use the crisis to “leech off a company’s profits and to seize its ...
It seems that with all the unlikely optimistic expectations for a thaw between Barack Obama and Dmitry Medvedev, we are seeing Mikhail Gorbachev getting thrown into the debate like it was going out of style. It seems that as much as the Amer...
Martin Wolf at the Financial Times wonders if the U.S. is the new Russia. Is the US Russia? The question seems provocative, if not outrageous. Yet the person asking it is Simon Johnson, former chief economist at the International Monetary Fund and...
The latest variant for fitting out Russia Grigory Pasko, journalist Grigory Yavlinsky appeared on 21 March at a conference of ecologists in the settlement of Dubrovsky outside Moscow. Here are quotes from his speech. “…The freeloaders ...
Foreign Policy is sure getting a lot of links from us today, but this book review by Peter Baker is worth a read: Even as Medvedev flew to London to meet with President Obama for the first time this month, Russian authorities hauled onetime oligar...
Federico Fubini, an Italian journalist at Corriere della Serra, has published an interesting interview with the Ukrainian PM Yulia Tymoshenko in Foreign Policy in which it is possible to see just how thin the line is becoming for Ukraine – s...
I came across this translation from the Latvian press on TOL about whether or not the global financial crisis is changing Russia’s foreign policy ambitions in its near abroad. The short answer: no. You would think that given this incre...
Cathy Young writes in the WSJ about the tug-of-war going on between Russia and Ukraine over who can claim nationality of the famously gifted writer Nikolai Gogol: Gogol once wrote that he could never decide whether his soul was Russian or Ukrainia...
We recently had the opportunity to sit down with Dr. Ariel Cohen, who just edited a new report on Russia. In our conversations, Dr. Cohen discussed the challenges facing the Obama Administration in managing relations with Russia, diplomacy w...
I can see why some of Gogol’s characters are especially appealing for film adaptation in today’s Russia – especially if they can challenge Ukrainian sovereignty (which is also helpful in securing funding from from the government ...
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