TODAY: Politkovskaya defense will insist on open trial; Duma approves presidential term bill; Medvedev pledges cash to APEC, demands summit play stronger role in security; National Intelligence Council evaluates Russia’s global position; Rus...
Fresh from the Washington Post: The judge, Yevgeny Zubov, had ordered the trial closed a day earlier, saying members of the jury had refused to participate if reporters were allowed in the courtroom. But a man who identified himself as one of the ...
On 17 November, on the day of the start of the trial of the persons accused of the murder of the famous journalist, “Novaya gazeta” observer Anna Politkovskaya, an acquaintance telephoned me and said: “Have you heard!? The trial ...
From today’s Financial Times about Dmitry Medvedev’s extended trip to Latin America, figuratively following in the footsteps of China’s Hu Jintao: “The Russians want to demonstrate that two can play at this game,” sai...
More about what’s not being shown on Russian television about the economic crisis from contributors to the Moscow Times: One would have to dig much deeper to find other worrisome stories, like when some Russian banks refused to give out cash...
Tim Whewell of the New Statesman manages to get an early visit to one of the world’s newest self-proclaimed nations, South Ossetia, and finds himself in a geopolitical purgatory. It is easy to think of those people as mere playthings of Russ...
An editor at CNN’s AC360 blog talks with a group of Russia experts at AEI over Dmitry Medvedev’s view of Barack Obama: Andrei Kortunov of the New Eurasia Foundation says “we destroyed the old foundations of the relationship and h...
TODAY: United Russia congress; Georgia-Russia talks progress, Russia wants UN to monitor weapons trade; Poland seeking to allay tensions over missile defense; Bakhmina, Politkovskaya. The United Russia party is holding its congress today, giving p...
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