Have you noticed how the Russians are constantly trying to be “just like the other kids”? Henry Ford built an automobile assembly line – the Russians bought it from him. The Netherlands had its Diary of Anne Frank – The Sov...
That P word just won’t go away in Russia, and the authorities are beginning to show their concern. However with the latest threats to send out truncheon-wielding OMON to break up demonstrations, isn’t the Kremlin helping to make ...
Boris Martynov: «Russia’s geopolitical interest in Latin America needs to be reinforced with economics» Part 2 Grigory Pasko, journalist See part 1 of this interview here. For now at least, the only obvious successes are in the realm of coop...
TODAY: A year after Medvedev’s election, pundits are split over his status as a reformer; Putin says he wants Russia to conform to European human rights standards; a European court rules on a Russian judge’s unfair dismissal; the North...
Presidential economic adviser Arkady Dvorkovichhas says Russia has sufficient oil fund reserves to “live through this year without borrowing,” despite the possibility of a budget deficit. Meanwhile, the Ukrainian company Naftogaz wants...
The head of Russia’s Federal Consumer Protection Service, Gennady Onishchenko, has recommendations for an anti-crisis diet: lots of potatoes and cabbage, just like the days of wartime rationing. “The aim is so that people don’t p...
Brian Whitmore over at the Power Vertical has a blog post up on the coming Mikhail Khodorkovsky trial: Critics say the case — like Khodorkovsky’s 2005 trial in which he was convicted of tax evasion and fraud and sentenced to eight year...
Yuri Schmidt and Robert Amsterdam are quoted in this Moscow News article about the upcoming second trial of Mikhail Khodorkovsky: “I understand the subtext that journalists are putting into this,” Khodorkovsky’s lawyer Yury Shmi...
The 60th anniversary of NATO is nearly upon us, and next week’s much ballyhooed meetings in France and Germany are expected to produce the first revision to NATO’s Strategic Concept in over a decade. Russia will be high on the agenda. ...
The Jamestown Foundation has an excellent article about telling fractures within disparate regions of the Russian Federation. The thesis, put forth by Carnegie Moscow Center scholar Alexei Malashenko, is that some of Russia’s far flung terri...
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