This one comes from the Global News Blog at Reuters: Pushkin’s “Russian Uprising” was an 18th century peasant revolt focused on the Ural and Volga regions led by Yemelian Pugachev, a pretender to the throne of Tsarina Catherine t...
Writing in the Moscow Times, Alexander Golts thinks that the Russians are in no hurry to conclude any talks about arms treaties with the United States. The real question is whether Moscow has any desire for a compromise or a new treaty. President ...
The Wall Street Journal points out Putinka vodka sells much more than Medvedeff vodka. Putinka vodka piggybacked on the cult-like popularity of Vladimir Putin to become one of Russia’s top-selling brands of spirits. For a new vodka named aft...
TODAY: Putin disbands departments in charge of Medvedev’s national projects, moves to support shipbuilding; military and Women’s Day protests; Saakashvili blames Russia for increased protests, Tymoshenko on Russia and Europe.The Kremli...
Will the real Shokhin please stand up? By the Polittechnologist Member of the Presidium of the General Council of United Russia (this is the putinite analogue of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union) Mr...
This is from a Q&A posted by Reuters with Eurasia Group (Ian Bremmer). EG doesn’t often tell you much that a regular RA.com reader wouldn’t already know (including a definition of the word “siloviki”), but it̵...
In a sea of colorful Russia pundits, I would definitely say that Evgeny Gontmakher stands out. After all, this is the guy who bravely authored the Novocherkassk-2009 article in Vedomosti, a prognosis of the potential political impact of sudd...
This was an amusingly snide comment piece in the Washington Post from Robert Kagan, poking fun at the media’s habit of embracing everything the Obama administration is doing as “new.” Sure, crabby as he is, Kagan does have ...
From the editorial board of the Wall Street Journal: Don’t hold your breath for the outcome. Russia’s courts take orders directly from the Kremlin, and this trial sets a new Kafkian bar. The same prosecutor who won a state award for th...
TODAY: US and Russia ministers’ meeting goes smoothly, Lavrov praises ‘wonderful’ relationship; Poland says US won’t give up on missile defense; mainstream media worried about unrest; heroin; oligarchs on the way out? Pro-K...
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