Archive - 2005

24 hours on, and life in London seems to be getting pretty much back to normal.  The transport network, with a few exceptions, is running pretty smoothly for short journeys in and out of the capital, although the...

Now I’m back home safely (thanks to all for your concern and kind words) lets get back to what this blog is all about – Russia or, for today at least, Russia’s reaction to today’s terrorist...

Those of you who read this blog regularly will know that I’m based in London and no longer live anywhere near Siberia. There have been a number of explosions here in London today – official sources so far...

In a tale that in many ways mirrors my own ‘spiritual t-shirt wearing development’, Tim Newman explains his attachment to his CCCP t-shirt: In some way I’m trying to project the image that I have a...

Tim Worstall, who runs a company that trades extensively in Russia, has a few observations on the Russian business climate, from the perspective of the smaller business owner: The annual global market for one material...

In a bid to reduce the number of vodka related deaths in Russia, President Putin has suggested re-nationalising the vodka production industry.  This is in contrast to his ministers, who until recently, were trying...

Remember how someone threw a hand grenade at George Bush during his recent visit to Georgia?  Well, now the Georgian authorities look to have found the culprit and, according to Mosnews, he might be Russian. ...

Now that the Russian government has secured a majority stake in Gazprom it has fully opened up the company to foreign investors. While in a strictly legal sense, this means that a foreign company could buy all of...

William Burns is set to become the new US Ambassador to Russia, according to Interfax.  There have been reports that William Burns would be the next Ambassador to Russia since early this year, but I wonder if the...

Welcome to Siberian Light for the latest weekly Carnival of the Revolutions, where we aim to give you a sampling of how democracy is marching forwards (and sometimes backwards) in the world today.  So, without...