Here’s an interesting exchange from the circus at Davos from Anna Ershova, who points out that something got lost in translation (my gratitude to Veronica Khokhlova for the link): Dell asks the very obviously annoyed Putin: “How can we...
Editor’s note: On 10 December of last year, less than a week after the death of the incumbent Patriarch of All the Russias, Alexiy II, our Russia Correspondent Grigory Pasko made a bold prediction, inconspicuously tucked away in a corn...
BP has had a legendarily bad experience with its investments in Russia, but in some ways this has been a direct result of its decision to jump into a high stakes political game. Various news media are reporting on the company’s fall in...
Robert Kagan is pretty worried about the new administration cutting defense spending. From the Washington Post: The Obama administration is right to want to begin negotiations with Russia over missile defense and arms control. But it is a poor ope...
TODAY: Russia offers money to Kyrgyzstan to abandon obligations on its US military base; Tajik President cancels Moscow trip; Peskov says Putin was misunderstood; more protests on the horizon, Amnesty International demands release of opposition pr...
Egged on somewhat, perhaps, by what he views as Vladimir Putin’s use of the US as a scapegoat for Russia’s financial problems, Clifford J. Levy wrote in the New York Times over the weekend about the doubtful light cast on Putin’s...
Either the Russian public simply can’t afford to spend their rubles on printed matter these days, or people are waking up to the subjective nature of the printed word. A new poll by the Russian Business Rating Agency suggests that more...
Prime Minister of the RF Vladimir Putin in an interview with Bloomberg said: “I never had it as a goal to destroy billionaires. My goal has been for all to live according to the rules, which are called laws. These rules are being made legall...
From Anatoly Chubais in the Wall Street Journal today: Still, according to Mr. Chubais, Mr. Putin probably meant what he said. The latest bout of state intervention in Russia was no more planned in Moscow than in Washington or Europe, he says. The...
More news about the protests in Russia over the weekend from the World News Examiner: So bad have things become, that even with limits on speech, protests swept Russia this weekend. Moscow in the west, and Vladivostok in the east – where pro...
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