Russia

February 12, 2009

Energy As Foreign Policy

In her new book, “Power, Energy, and the New Russian Imperialism,” Anita Orban, the director of the Budapest-based Constellation Energy Institute, argues that the Kremlin’s foreign policy can be almost entirely pinned to the stre...
February 12, 2009

Ballistic Bargaining Chips

The private intelligence agency Stratfor has an interesting article about how the Obama Administration may be using a planned Central European missile defense system as a bargaining chip in talks about nukes with Iran. At a February 10 press confe...
February 12, 2009

RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – Feb 12th, 2009

TODAY: Putin announces no defense spending cuts; military spending to be cut; arms exports to rise. Medvedev turns his attention to prison population. Court deports US rabbi; study center predicts rise in racist attacks; Lavrov says Russia open to...
February 11, 2009

Spies Like Us

A Georgian magazine today excerpts quotes from a Russian whistleblower’s accusations about modern Kremlin spy tactics. According to Anna Bukovskaya, a 20-year-old member of the pro-Kremlin youth group Nashi, since 2007 the Kremlin has been i...
February 11, 2009

Go(a)t Milk?

Russian scientists are implanting goats with the human genes necessary to produce breast milk, reports The Telegraph. The goal, apparently, is to provide an alternate source of nutrition for babies whose mothers cannot breastfeed them, although sc...
February 11, 2009

Enter the Protagonist

One European policy wonk says the European Union has become “too technocratic and business-oriented” in its relations with Russia, demonstrating a “narrow, almost provincial understanding” of events like the recent Russia-U...
February 11, 2009

RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – Feb 11th, 2009

TODAY: Spotlight on US-Russia foreign policy; Belarus wants more loans from Russia; Human Rights Watch condemns government’s treatment of migrant workers; political cartoons.All eyes are on upcoming developments in US-Russia foreign policy. ...
February 10, 2009

Boris Nemtsov: Dictatorship or Perestroika

The following is an exclusive translation from Grani.ru. Dictatorship or perestroika By Boris Nemtsov, Grani.ru The crisis has shown the complete incompetency and weakness of the state built by Putin. The main feature of “putinism” ...
February 10, 2009

Guinea-Gate

Tabloid newspaper Metro UK features an article on the Kremlin once again acting in aggression before their PR team can asses the situation. Case in point, the story features Nastya Ivliyeva, a thirteen-year-old girl who sent a message to Dmitry Me...
February 10, 2009

RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – Feb 10th, 2009

TODAY: Kremlin think-tank blames Russia’s economic structure for current financial troubles; Kyrgyzstan delays vote on US base closure, awaits funds; Putin introduces bill to criminalize stock price manipulation, plans domestic ratings agenc...