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Rumours have been flying in the Russian and Israeli press that Russia is about to sell a batch of SS-26 Iskander-E missiles to Syria.  They’re kind of like SCUDs, only better. Israel is vehemently opposed to...

Weekly news returns after a slightly extended holiday hiatus.  Happy New Year, one and all! The focus this week is on elections and the spread of democracy throughout the CIS.  There are even (very small)...

The number of Russian nationals killed by the Asian Tsunami is relatively low, compared to that of other nations.  So far, I’ve only been able to find figures for casualties in Thailand, which stand at 10...

Remember John A Shaw?  He was the Deputy Undersecretary of Defense from the Pentagon who, back in October, claimed that the reason there were no WMDs left in Iraq was because Russian special forces had spirited...

The Black Widows who killed 90 people when they blew up two Russian airliners in August this year got onto the planes by buying last minute tickets from ticket scalpers. The Russian government, not to mention the...

Have a very merry Christmas!  But, before you do, check out the news from Russia… Yukos Sunday’s auction of Yukos subsidiary Yuganskneftegaz resulted in what is probably one of the biggest shocks to...

Wednesday is upon us once again – time to check out what’s been happening in and around Russia over the past seven days. The major headline from today is the ongoing hostage situation in Athens.  Two...

A bus was hijacked in Athens this morning and its 26 passengers held at gunpoint.  The identity of the hijackers is uncertain at the moment – the bus driver thinks they are Albanian, but RIA Novosti (via...

Irkutsk is easily the most excellent city in the whole wide world.  It’s commonly known as the Paris of Siberia, because all the Decembrist’s exiled by Tsar Alexander II brought ‘culture’...

It seems pretty clear now that Victor Yushchenko was poisoned.  Doctors in Vienna have confirmed that his blood contained over 1,000 times the normal amount of dioxin. Yushchenko himself has laid the blame on the...