Jackson Diehl at the Washington Post notes with disappointment that the Russia-Georgia moment of glory on the front burner of U.S. foreign policy may be coming to an end, and that if the U.S. reaction is soft, the tanks will take the road to Tbili...
…so they arrested the man who made such gloomy statements. Perhaps in the Kremlin they are asking, “Why didn’t we think of that?!” From the Wall Street Journal: “All I did was say what everyone knows,̶...
TODAY: Russia to develop ballistic missiles; Medvedev ends Latin American tour in Cuba; protesters gather for Beketov; Svetlana Bakhmina gives birth; Politkovskaya investigators say they are closing in on the killer; EU must work on relationships ...
The rumored deal of Lukoil taking over an $8.3 billion stake in the Spanish energy giant Repsol is causing quite a feverish political debate in the country, underscored by deep suspicion and paranoia that the private Russian company could be a Tro...
It’s easy to dismiss what Russia is doing with Venezuela as political theater – an attempt to create artificial leverage to use with Washington in other disputes across the globe. But in terms of business, things look much more s...
RA recently blogged about the comparative constitutional opportunism displayed following the Beslan crisis and today’s financial crisis. Coincidentally, a new article by Ella Kesayeva in Novaya Gazeta digs deeper into the persisting my...
The other day our Russia correspondent Grigory Pasko had a very grim piece about the assault case of Mikhail Beketov, the journalist who was beaten by attackers so severely that he was left in coma and had to have one leg amputated. Beketov&...
Master propagandist Vladislav Surkov appears to be placing preemptive emphasis on Russia’s middle class in this tumultuous financial crisis – though this sector of society has never once reared its head in the Putin years, Surkov is kn...
This comes from an interview with the opposition politician Boris Nemtsov, who recently published a book in Russia which alleges that Gazprom is used as a money laundering vehicle to line the pockets of numerous officials in the Kremlin. The...
Sometimes in looking back on the truly pivotal moments in contemporary Russian politics, we can see not only the impact of the deep crises the country has suffered, but also the uses and expediency of these national traumas by the powers – a...
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