An extract from some of Anne Applebaum’s pipe dreams… Instead of sending their best and brightest to create a genuinely secure system — through expanded use of liquid natural gas, more nuclear plants, clean coal — most Euro...
Estonia’s most famous contemporary composer, Arvo Pärt, premiered a new major symphony work in Los Angeles this past weekend dedicated to Mikhail Khodorkovsky (whom he calls “a great man”) and gives a nod to “all those impr...
I found this bit entertaining from the report that Dmitry Medvedev’s video blog will begin to accept and publish reader’s comments: In order to leave a comment on the president’s personal video blog, visitors will have to registe...
They say that for many, addiction is not a choice, but a disease. And for those of us who are Russia news junkies, we have lately had to subsist on a steady diet of repetitive, off-target reports on the Russia-Ukraine energy dispute. It’s ea...
Russia’s ruble is now at its weakest level in almost six years after the central bank devalued the currency again for the 13th time in two months on the first official trading day of 2009. Despite the measure being widely protested las...
TODAY: Russia and Ukraine reach accord after weekend of disputes over conditions for resuming gas supplies; angry Bulgaria seeks help to reduce Russia dependency; Medvedev opens interactive comment website; Beketov moved to intensive care; Czech f...
The author Simon Sebag Montefiore has a must-read op/ed in the New York Times about Russia’s lack of a mechanism to transfer power from one leader to the next. Vladimir Putin wants his successes in Russia to be respected by the West; hence h...
Though it feels like part of a scripted plot of an unknown conclusion more than an spontaneous outburst, yesterday President Dmitry Medvedev publicly criticized Vladimir Putin’s handling of the economy, which is the second time he has spoken...
Were the auctions of Yukos assets a fair, equitable and transparent process as the Russian government claims, or simple competition between two state firms to steal billions worth of assets under the guise of nationalization? I won’t m...
Grigol Vashadze, the foreign minister of Georgia, was in Washington this week to sign a strategic security accord with Washington (one final poke in the eye of Russia from the outcoming Bush administration). Joshua Keating over at Foreign Po...
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