Boris Martynov: «Russia’s geopolitical interest in Latin America needs to be reinforced with economics» Part 2 Grigory Pasko, journalist See part 1 of this interview here. For now at least, the only obvious successes are in the realm of coop...
TODAY: A year after Medvedev’s election, pundits are split over his status as a reformer; Putin says he wants Russia to conform to European human rights standards; a European court rules on a Russian judge’s unfair dismissal; the North...
Brian Whitmore over at the Power Vertical has a blog post up on the coming Mikhail Khodorkovsky trial: Critics say the case — like Khodorkovsky’s 2005 trial in which he was convicted of tax evasion and fraud and sentenced to eight year...
Yuri Schmidt and Robert Amsterdam are quoted in this Moscow News article about the upcoming second trial of Mikhail Khodorkovsky: “I understand the subtext that journalists are putting into this,” Khodorkovsky’s lawyer Yury Shmi...
The 60th anniversary of NATO is nearly upon us, and next week’s much ballyhooed meetings in France and Germany are expected to produce the first revision to NATO’s Strategic Concept in over a decade. Russia will be high on the agenda. ...
The Jamestown Foundation has an excellent article about telling fractures within disparate regions of the Russian Federation. The thesis, put forth by Carnegie Moscow Center scholar Alexei Malashenko, is that some of Russia’s far flung terri...
From Slate, Matthew Polly reports on the infatuations of monarchs, the displacement of Nazi art, and “the Russian way of fighting,” from the “fetid bogland“of St. Petersburg during the 2009 World Sambo Championships. On his...
Over at the RUSSIA! blog, one of our favorite new sites, Katya Tylevich tries to read the tea leaves on the latest dismissal of the preposterous lawsuit filed against Mikhail Khodorkovsky. Is this small victory a sign of hope for Khodorkovsky? Not...
The 2008 US Report on Human Rights was unveiled yesterday, and it made some pretty stark conclusions about Russia. Sergei Lavrov, the Russian Foreign Minister, issued a pretty formulaic response, telling Reuters that “We have problems ...
Back in the heyday of Stalin’s Gulag, there was a very bizarre form of penal institution – the sharashka. Here’s how it worked: The NKVD would arrest a bunch of brilliant scientists and engineers, throw them in an R&D facilit...
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