Russia

December 8, 2008

German Views on War in Georgia

There is a new paper worth checking out from the German Institute for International and Security Affairs, which gathers together several articles to debate the various perceptions of the Russian invasion of Georgia and its policy implications for ...
December 8, 2008

The New Tepid War

National Review Online has posted a symposium asking various experts whether or not they believe that Russia’s naval deployment in the Panama Canal (the first time since WWII) this weekend means that Moscow has made a clear declaration of a ...
December 8, 2008

Vasily Alexanyan Released from Prison?

There are early reports in the Russian media that the former general counsel of Yukos, Vasily Alexanyan, who has been held unjustly in prison on pre-trial detenion for years and denied medical attention, has been released on bail.  Only six w...
December 8, 2008

Grigory Pasko: The Common Touch of a Tsar

It must have been a month or so ago that my wife brought to my attention that the towel-dryer in our bathroom wasn’t working [all Russian flats have an exposed hot-water pipe on the bathroom wall for hanging wet towels and clothes on–T...
December 8, 2008

RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – Dec. 8, 2008

TODAY: National mourning of the patriarch continues, Switzerland helps soften Russia-Georgia relations, a hostage siege in Dagestan ends with fatalities, more asset seizures on the horizon, fingers point to FSB in Politkovskaya trial, and Russia j...
December 5, 2008

Russia’s Bridge to Nowhere

In 2006, Thomas Friedman argued that the price of oil correlates to democracy in emerging markets. With characteristic grandeur he remarked, “give me $18-a-barrel oil and I will give you political and economic reform from Algeria to Iran....
December 5, 2008

RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – Dec 5th, 2008

TODAY: Patriarch Alexei II dies in Moscow; Putin’s Q&A, Medvedev tries to define his boundaries; EU responds negatively to Russia’s proposed security measures and moves to boost ties with former Soviet states; masked police invade ...
December 4, 2008

Boris Sokolov: Is the “Right Cause” Right?

[Editor’s note: we’re pleased to feature this translation of an exclusive article from Boris Sokolov, a Russian historian, political columnist, critic and literary scholar, doctor of philological sciences, candidate of historical scien...
December 3, 2008

RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – Dec 3rd, 2008

TODAY: NATO resumes relations with Russia – US position under scrutiny, Russia triumphant; Ukraine to set up special group to improve Russian relations; Bahrain and Russia to cooperate; Russia refuses to ban cluster bombs; Politkovskaya lawy...
December 3, 2008

Grigory Pasko: Adventures in State Propaganda

I recently read the latest book about YUKOS and Khodorkovsky. The author – a certain Vladimir Perekrest from «Izvestiya» – not only named it «What Khodorkovsky is sitting for» [“to sit” is the Russian equivalent of the Amer...