We are enjoying Robert Coalson’s new gig over at the Huffington Post. This is from the latest: The problem is not only the crisis, but the fact that the Putin political/economic system in Russia has no flexibility and only a tiny fract...
Anna Nemtsova interviews Yuri Schmidt of the Mikhail Khodorkovsky defense team over on Newsweek: A crisis-stricken Kremlin is courting Western investors, and activists hope this may lead to the release of high-profile political prisoners, like the...
The Economist believes that soon the Russian government will have to pay the piper for all the bullying and stealing of years past – but whether or not this improves relations is by no means guaranteed. The West may not have much leverage ov...
The death of long-time conservative scholar Samuel Huntington has kicked off a lively discussion in various quarters on his legacy, his ideas, and his enduring argument – made much more popular after 9/11 – that the fundamental source ...
The power and its competence Grigory Pasko, journalist Если Вы хотите прочитать оригинал данной статьи на русском языке, нажмите сюда. There’s a strange organization in Russia. It’s called the «Public chamber». In the image of this str...
At least one person out there doesn’t seem to think that the low oil prices and economic difficulties is going to derail Russia’s agenda to seize back control of its periphery … but then again, this is Fox News. It seems od...
This video has been making its way around the internet over the past few days. It shows the opening of a Moscow retailer which had advertised discounts of 80% on laptops, but only had ten of them to sell. The Russian shoppers show a pa...
We posted an earlier review of this book here. The following comes from Andrew Nagorski at Truthdig: Right at the beginning of “History’s Greatest Heist: The Looting of Russia by the Bolsheviks,” Sean McMeekin reminds reade...
TODAY: Worries over the gas cut off, no more jury trials, an evacuation in Gaza, war games with Greece, Czechs in charge of the EU, a scandal with the Philippines, more Arctic fighting, and the Russian Navy is deployed to fight the Somali pirates....
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