Carnegie Moscow Center has released a new collection of working papers under the title “Engaging History: The Problems & Politics of Memory in Russia and the Post-Socialist Space,” tackling a subject of great interest to us. The co...
During an international investment forum held last month in Moscow, Premier Putin boldly declared: “We are going to economize every ruble of the budget in the strictest possible way!” He also said a whole bunch of other things there &#...
Writing on Foreign Policy/NPR, Julia Ioffe points out that pretty much everything revealed in the latest Wikileaks document dump is already well known, and not really a big deal in Russia. No democracy? That’s certainly news.&nbs...
TNK-BP’s planned Geneva trading unit could help the company to double its oil product trades, it says. Gazprom and Naftogaz say that they have settled their two-year-old gas dispute, with the latter pledging to return 12.1 billion cubi...
The BBC are running a video report on William Browder, which includes interviews with Interior Ministry officials on Russia’s plans to ruin his business interests. ‘There is this general unease with Russia […] The economic ...
TODAY: Kashin attackers post video, journalist writes first column since attack; Parfenov’s ‘magic touch’; Kremlin unperturbed by Wikileaks; has Russia broken long-standing pledges to NATO? Nashi founder, officials accused of cri...
President Dmitry Medvedev may have succeeded in chucking out Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov, but he’s apparently not done with him yet. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev identified the fight against corruption and crime a priority of the Moscow c...
It’s no wonder why the FSB vaguely threatened to assassinate Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. In just the first wave of confidential diplomatic cables released yesterday, we get the opportunity to how officials of the U.S. government ...
Writing in the New York Times, John Vinocur notes the peculiar silence at the Lisbon NATO summit on the subject of France’s sale of the Mistral warships to Russia. A coda: the high-pressure gush at Lisbon was successfully slip-streamed by Fr...
TNK-BP is setting up an international trading arm, likely to be based in Geneva, which could prove a ‘serious rival‘ to London as a trading hub for physical energy commodities, reports the FT. Germany’s E.On has launched a ...
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