This week’s news highlights (or lowlights, depending on your point of view) include Putin’s popularity falling to an all time low, lots of good news for the economy, the US and Germany both crawling with...
Category - Blog
AndyWhat a cool birthday present!
Finally it’s over! In a tense three-way fight to the finish to the First European Weblog Awards, Siberian Light scraped home in the Best CIS Blog category a mere 7 votes ahead of The Argus, who in turn...
Democracy vs Stability: The EU’s dilemma in Russia
Arthur Chrenkoff writes about European attitudes towards Russia: Basically his summary is that Eastern European states, with strong memories of Russian & Soviet imperial rule, are desparate to not only forge...
Weekly News #6
Foreign Affairs Syria’s President Assad had a productive visit to Moscow this week. Not only did he manage to persuade Russia to tell the US that accusing Syria of harbouring terrorists was counterproductive...
Russian anti-semitism gone mad
Note (26/1/05): Two corrections have been made in italics to this post in response to Alexei’s comments below. 19 MPs – including members of the pro-Putin opposition (oops) Rodina party – and 500...
Satin Pajamas and Important Awards
Every new year brings with it a batch of awards ceremonies. Oscars, Grammy’s Golden Globes, and countless more. But all these are, frankly, worth nothing at all when compared with the glory of the 1st...
Weekly News #5
Apologies for the slight delay in issuing this week’s news roundup. This is because I was seduced yesterday evening by the romance of the FA Cup 3rd Round Replay between Exeter City and Manchester United...
The Babushka Revolution
That’s what Turkish Press is calling the recent pensioners’ protests in Russia. So effective were the protests that Putin has begun criticising the government’s execution of the pension reforms and...
Who controls the Russian arms trade?
In an opinion piece about last week’s rumours of a Russian missile sale to Syria, Pavel Felgenhauer notes a worrying aspect of the Russian arms trade in general. Namely a lack of central control. Ivanov...
Ukraine election rumbles on
Viktor Yanukovich has just been given leave to appeal the Ukrainian Supreme Court’s verdict that he had lost last year’s Presidential Election. The voluminous appeal lodged on Friday – and...