In Washington DC this week I had the opportunity to meet with the political analyst Andrei Piontkovsky, the survivor of a political trial, the author of some great books about Russia, and a current analyst for the Hudson Institute. Among oth...
This is extracted from a book review by Gary Saul Morson of the New Criterion on Inside the Stalin Archives by Jonathan Brent. Stalinism was idealist in another, even more terrifying sense: it aimed at controlling from within the very thoughts we ...
Cherchez la femme! The legislative power of the Russian Federation, as always, is on the lookout for spies Grigory Pasko, journalist The State Duma of Russia on 18 March instructed its committee on security to gather in the law-enforcement organs ...
The who-started-it debate on the Georgian war has resurfaced, thanks to a Russian action film ‘shot in the same style as the Bourne trilogy’ which is due to be broadcast on Russian television in the coming weeks. Reuters reports:...
Russia’s Federal State Statistics Service today announced that the total number of unemployed Russians stood around 6.4 million people last month (8.5% of the economically active population) – a 4.9% increase on January figures. ...
TODAY: International forces could replace troops in Transdnestr; action film based on Georgian war to be screened; US plays down threat posed by Russian military upgrade; state officials double in number; NGO fund distribution ‘nontransparen...
Like a time machine taking us much further back than we wanted, this news clip points out that Russia has its own idea what the “reset” button really means.
Quite the hullabaloo surrounding the registration for mayoral candidates for the city of Sochi, which will be hosting the 2014 Winter Olympic Games. If opposition leader Boris Nemtsov can’t win, then Alexander Lebedev is probably the s...
Comrade Sechin, the oil economist? Grigory Pasko, journalist Inasmuch as I’m not an economist, I didn’t pay much attention to a report from the Bloomberg agency. However, there are more observant people on Live Journal. One of them, a ...
Will he or won’t he? Grigory Pasko sent us this Kommersant article (which we have duly exclusively translated below) about the latest twist in a flurry of flip-flopping these past few days as to whether or not Venezuela really has offered to...
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