A few days ago we discussed newly minted Russian President, Dmitri Medvedev's first foreign visit to Kazakhstan, but equally if not more important to the CA region and the world at large is where he went next, China. He met with Chinese President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao in a visit that was both […]
Not to be outdone by yesterday's tennis ‘interviews’ in the Daily Telegraph, this Sunday's New York Times front page photo made sure no-one skipped straight to the magazine section: “Free and Flush, Russians Eager to Roam Abroad”, the headline beamed, in case anyone might also be interested in reading the accompanying article, which happened to […]
“They very rarely looked like endangering the Russian goal, Greece. There's no doubt the better team won today, Russia showed good pace and got forward well and they are a young, quick team who are only going to get better and better.” BBC Radio 5 Live pundit Pat Nevin
The English may accuse Russia of bad sportsmanship in the boardroom, but they certainly wouldn't mind taking a bit of a corporate raiding from the new crop of Soviet bloc sportswomen. A series of ‘interviews’ to “assess the changes on court” was The Daily Telegraph's highly plausible excuse to “meet eight rising stars from the […]
Sorry for the silence! Been away celebrating Russia's Independence Day…from itself. (It is true: 12 June marked the secession of the Russian republic from the USSR. Not only is the occasion modishly Freudian, but it's also simply a matter of justice: the US has an independence day, and so is Russia to be left without […]
Here in the United States, the world's largest and in many ways most dynamic economy, everyday we open the morning papers lately just to see one more sign that our economy is in trouble; credit crisis, stimulus packages, unemployment, gas/oil prices, food prices, a movie in New York City costs $12.00! America is not alone […]
On May 22, new Russian President Dmitri Medvedev made his first foreign diplomatic visit of his term to Astana, Kazakhstan. This gesture shows to the Astana's government, China, US, and the world that Russia sees great importance in its relations with this CA/CIS power, but also the region as a whole. Medvedev stated; “Astana did […]
Today, Mark Ames, the editor of the embattled Russian dissident paper The eXile (whose plight this Blog has been morbidly following) writes for the first time about the harrowing ordeal in an article for Radar Magazine. It is required reading. In addition to the Limonov factor, he sheds some more light on the possible causes […]
Republican presidential nominee John McCain is well known for his adversarial, even anachronistic, approach to Russia. Straight talk, right? Perhaps. But, asks Mark Benjamin today on Salon.com, could his bluster have had less to do with the Republican base than with the lobbying connections of a close advisor? The architect behind McCain's hard-line Russia policy, […]
With an International Donor's Conference being held in Paris next week on Afghanistan's behalf, increasing pressure is being put on President Karzai's ability to run the still unstable nation's government. The donor's aid is expected to target the sector's of agriculture, energy, security and education, but a number of them are demanding that the conference […]
Hey, America! Think your Obama is so special?? A young charismatic man of African descent becomes a national icon, whose eloquence inspires a generation, whose dashing looks send girls fainting and whose liberal politics threaten to derail the establishment? That sort of thing might still be hot over here, but it is OLD NEWS in […]
So now we know the real reason behind the Federal hounding of the Exile, courtesy of good reporting by the Moscow Times: its associations with dissident leader Eduard Limonov. In my earlier post, I noted that Limonov was a columnist for the paper and that his radical opposition movement had had scores of its members […]
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