This comes from Sigrid Rausing in the New Statesman: My book on the collective farm was published in 2004. In it I predicted that the culture of memorials would take off: prison camps would be turned into museums, books would be written, docu...
Sure, Bakiyev went to Moscow and picked up a couple of billion dollars to close the U.S. airbase, but one can see how the decision was made easier. From the Associated Press: The Manas base is the only U.S. toehold in strategic Central Asia,...
Reuters has a story today about one of those international approval rating polls, in which respondents say whether each given country has a “positive” or “negative” impact on the world. The latest is that America̵...
A friend told us about this amusing/frightening story broadcast yesterday on Canada’s CBC radio show “As It Happens,” relating an incident of a clearly intoxicated Russian pilot being confronted by passengers on a transatlantic A...
Gilani Shepiyev, a former deputy mayor of Grozny, received three fatal gunshot wounds to the head late last night outside his Moscow apartment – an increasingly common affliction for many Russians who are in some way connected to the South C...
For anyone in need of advanced evidence of how disorganized America’s foreign policy towards Russia will likely be over the coming years, there is this priceless gem about former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger’s recent trips to Mos...
TODAY: US and Russian delegates to meet in Munich today amid new challenge in Afghanistan; Nashi activists spying for Kremlin?; former Mayor gunned down in contract killing, media editors threatened and beaten; Politkovskaya witness says he was as...
She wrote it, not us. From Ellen Barry in the New York Times: Talk about mixed messages. Russia’s leaders this week could not say enough good things about President Barack Obama. His statements on Afghanistan were “encouraging,” ...
I recently stumbled upon an interesting report about a group of Orthodox ascetics, living deep in the Russian hinterlands, who have adopted an iconographic image of Vladimir Putin in its religious rituals. “In a previous lifetime, Putin was ...
I caught this video depicting the Russian government’s brutal crackdown on student and youth movement protests over at Oleg Kozlovsky’s excellent blog. He writes: Saturday was marked by new protests in Moscow and in other cities....
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