If you’ve not been keeping up with the Russia blogs recently, this is your chance to gorge yourself on some of the best writing about Russia you’ll see. This month’s roundup of Russia blogs is likely...

Sometimes I think I’ve seen every bonkers story Russia has to throw at me.  Then I find out that someone has given Vladimir Putin a tiger cub for his 56th birthday. Old softie that Putin is, the tiger cub will be...

Following on from my post below about Russia’s bailout of Iceland, I found out today that Iceland has been bailed out of a tight economic corner by Russia before – well, to be more precise, by the Soviet...

When I heard the news earlier today that Russia is about to loan Iceland $5.4 billion (the equivalent of 1/3 of Iceland’s GDP) to bail out the financially crippled country’s ailing banks, I thought to...

If you’re reading this post on the Siberian Light site, rather than by RSS, you’ll notice things look a little different around here. The magazine format that I’ve been using for nearly a year now has...

An experiment, as we link to the live stream of tonight's Frontline Club panel discussion - "All Change in the Caucasus."

Dmitry Medvedev caught on video playing with his black market iPhone during a press conference with French President Sarkozy.

Russia has begun discussions about building a space center in Cuba.