Interview: Tim Newman
Some people fall in love with Russia, and so they move to Moscow. Some people, like me, fall in love with Russia so much that they go and live in Siberia. But Tim Newman...
Some people fall in love with Russia, and so they move to Moscow. Some people, like me, fall in love with Russia so much that they go and live in Siberia. But Tim Newman...
If you’re a Russian, how does it feel to be surrounded by the USA? This map shows just how many US bases ring Russia.
Ruminations on Russia has taken La Russophobe’s recent interview, and run with it, in “an attempt to lift the La Russophobe debate out of the mire.” And he’s picked a pretty controversial topic –...
A bomb exploded in a McDonalds restaurant in St Petersburg last night, injuring six people. The police have ruled out terrorism, and are calling it “hooliganism”, linking it to an explosion last week in...
Since posting an interview with La Russophobe on Thursday, I’ve come in for some criticism, both in web comments, and via email. One reader was “absolutely baffled as to why you would actually have...
Sergei Ivanov, one of the two leading contenders to replace Vladimir Putin as President in 2008, has been promoted to First Deputy Prime Minister. The move puts Ivanov on a par with Dmitri Medvedev,...
La Russophobe exploded onto the Russian blogging scene in April last year and, since then has been offending Russiophiles left, right and centre with her opinions on Russia. Her views are strong, and she...
If you believe the hype, Vladimir Putin’s speech in Munich this weekend was little more than a declaration of a new Cold War. If you look more closely, though, it’s little more than a...
It’s been a busy week, with not much time for posting. So, in lieu of a real post, here’s a roundup of some of the Russia and FSU blogging that’s caught my eye over...
The Heritage Foundation have released their 2007 rankings of Economic Freedom, and it will make difficult reading for the Kremlin, as capitalist Russia apparently has a less free economy than communist China. Out of...
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