The MIT World Policy Journal is celebrating its 25th anniversary by making access to its Fall 2008 journal for free until the end of November. The 25th anniversary issue looks ahead to the next 25 years and, in...

Martin Gilbert, writing in the Times, imagines an entirely different end to the First World War: Imagine: in October 1918, Lloyd George’s Cabinet is planning for a prolonged struggle in 1919. Haig’s solution promises to...

Before I kick off this week’s (or, rather, last week’s – sorry, running a bit behind!) roundup of the best blog posts about Russia, I just wanted to remind you that I launched a new website this week:...

Dmitry Medvedev gives his first annual state of the nation speech, and announces that he’d like to extend the Russian Presidential term from 4 to 6 years. So what does the world’s press write about? That...

Welcome to this week’s roundup. Without further ado, here’s my pick of this week’s blog posts about Russia: This week saw Komsomol’s 90th anniversary and everyone’s been writing about it. ...

In an interesting piece of protectionism, Google’s bid to buy Begun, the advertising arm of Russian search engine company Rambler Media, has been blocked by the Russian competition regulator. Russia is the only...

Since the summer I’ve been putting together roundups of my the most interesting blog posts I’ve read about Russia in the previous month. But, the problem with monthly roundups is that there are hundreds of...

There seems to have been a bit of a glut of films about Russians in London recently. Partly, I suppose because of the simple fact that Russians are in London in huge numbers, partly because us Brits are a little bit...