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The Plot to Kill Putin
Any remotely dedicated Russia-watcher will tell you they had a good laugh when they heard that Russian and Ukrainian security services had allegedly foiled a plot to kill Prime ... ...read more
Does Russia Hate Gays?
Well, that might be an overstatement. But let’s start with St. Petersburg, the country’s intellectual capital. The local legislature in St. Petersburg is only one, largely forma... ...read moreArnold Schwarzenegger’s Twitter-Happy Russian Adventure
Forget a war victory over Georgia or the reset with the Obama administration. The greatest foreign policy coup Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has pulled off in his nearly th... ...read more
Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov Is Out
Yuri Luzhkov And he’s gone. The inevitable has happened, rather more dramatically than I expected. Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov has gone but not with a sensible resign... ...read moreGoodbye, Yuri Tuesday
Moscow’s all-powerful mayor is losing his job, and the scent of his approaching political death is as unmistakable and all encroaching as the rancid stench of a burning pe... ...read more
Russia is Burning: Moscow Mayor Vacations as Residents Fall Sick
The Russian capital is literally choking in the smog of forest and peat bog fires that have taken at least 52 lives and left thousands more homeless. Air pollution is five times... ...read more
What The Russian Spy Scandal Is Really About
Former Russian chief-spook Nikolai Kovalyov complains that the FBI’s case against the 11 alleged Russian deep-cover spies arrested across the United States on Sunday and... ...read moreThere May, Just, Have Been a Revolution in Kyrgyzstan
The government of Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev may have been overthrown by popular uprisings across the mountainous Central Asian republic. ...read more
Ready for a Russian Revolution? Don’t Get Your Hopes Up…
Since the beginning of the global economic crisis opposition connected pundits have been almost cheerfully predicting the downfall of Vladimir Putin’s regime at the hands ... ...read moreThe Curious Predictability of Vladimir Putin
Credit to the wire service hacks who managed to bash Vladimir Putin’s interminable audience with the nation into something resembling news almost as soon as it happened. I... ...read moreFollow Us
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