When it comes to talking about now-shuttered newspaper The eXile, “controversial” is the hardest working item of vocabulary one can dig up. It was never my cup tea per se, but I liked that it was around, and I like the conversati...
When not dodging assassination attempts, journalist John Helmer writes about oligarchs, concessionary property rights, and the new U.S. interest in fighting state-linked International Organized Crime. Here he sets out his theory of business ...
In his latest Washington Post op/ed, has Anders Åslund drank the Kool-Aid on Russia’s fake inter-governmental opposition, or are these byzantine fissures actually genuine? Back when we interviewed him last April, Åslund had cited Igor ...
Sometime in early 2010 it was made official: Russia officially became the largest supplier of arms to Latin America. Maybe that’s because the U.S. started getting more picky about their arms customers. Here goes a brief not...
OK, so I admit I was totally wrong when I assumed that Evgeni Plushenko would quad-twirl his way to a gold medal in men’s figure skating over his U.S. competitor Evan Lysacek, but then again, I know next to nothing about this odd sport. ...
Russia has begun work on a new nuclear power station in Kaliningrad, to the concern of local residents and ecologists, despite Rosatom’s assurances that the project is completely safe. The Federal Customs Service could be ready to cont...
The Defense Ministry could help AvtoVAZ increase its sales by compensating military officers for their down payment on a Lada 4×4, which could set them back by 1.3 billion rubles if the plan goes ahead and sales figures are met. VTB man...
“Official persons during execution of duties imposed upon them with respect to the implementation of state forestry control and oversight may apply in the capacity of special means: rubber truncheons, tear gas, handcuffs, means for the force...
We haven’t heard from our Russian colleague, The Polittechnologist, for quite a while now. Just recently, he brought our attention to the official website of the Federal Service of the Russian Federation for Control over the Narcotics Trade,...
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