Letter From the EditorsCold War 2.0 to the Rescue – or How to Travel Back in Time Without Really Trying FEATURED NEWS STORIES Russia, West Ramp Up Cold War Rhetoric Does Russia Need Military Bases Abroad? THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION Politics Moral and Political Reasons for Not Extraditing SnowdenDoes Moscow Really Have Moral High Ground in […]
Letter From the Editors FEATURED NEWS STORIES Moscow’s Syria Operation Hits One-Year Mark MH17 Crash Investigation Implicates Moscow Putin Halts Russia-US Nuclear Waste Agreement THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION Politics Crisis ManagerFormer Prime Minister Kiriyenko Poised to Become Putin’s Right-Hand Man State ReformState Reform Needed to Overcome Economic Crisis, Bring Russia Into 21st Century State and Law […]
Letter From the EditorsQuestioning/Unquestioning Loyalty: A Gaggle of Alliances, Coalitions and Parties FEATURED NEWS STORIES Syria Ceasefire Collapses Duma Elections Bolster United Russia, Putin THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION State and Law Intrusive Affairs MinistryKommersant Sources: Plans Call for Expanding FSB Into New Ministry of State Security What’s Behind the Rumors About a State Security MinistryRecent Purge […]
Letter From the EditorsTruth Is Stranger Than Reality TV – Who Will Be the ‘Survivor’ of Geopolitics? FEATURED NEWS STORIES Lavrov, Kerry Broker New Ceasefire in Syria THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION Politics Foreign Enemy Is Already Inside: How the State Is Unmasking ItselfBesieged Fortress Mentality Promoted by Regime Could Be Its Undoing The Presidency President WantedKhodorkovsky […]
Letter From the EditorsContinental Drift. FEATURED NEWS STORIES G-20 Summit Highlights Old Tensions Russia, China to Hold Joint Naval Drills THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION Politics Figure of the Week: 31%Levada Center Listed as Foreign Agent Because Its Polls Belie Kremlin Version of Reality State and Law Attack of LawMikhail Slobodin, Viktor Vekselberg Latest Business Leaders to […]
Letter From the Editors‘Let Me Jump in Your Game!’ Newcomers Jump Into This Week’s News From Russia FEATURED NEWS STORIES Is Trump the Wild Card in US-Russia Relations? Russia’s Pivot East Acquires New Dimensions THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION Politics The Russian Protest Movement: Not Dead, Not Alive, Just DifferentRussian Protest Movement Is Not Dead – It’s […]
Letter From the EditorsRehabilitating Janus, Erdogan and Stalin FEATURED NEWS STORIES Turkey Sends Troops Into Syria Iran Ends Use of Air Base by Russian Forces Crimea Becoming Epicenter of Global Ambitions THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION Politics A Shadow Over a Swamp: How Stalin Became Our MotherlandStalin’s Shadow Still Hangs Over Russia Education Faithful MinisterRussia Gets New […]
Letter From the EditorsFrom Eastern Europe to the Far East: The Sun Never Sets on American Influence FEATURED NEWS STORIES Meet Putin’s New Guard: Young Technocrats Russia Launches Syrian Air Strikes From Iran Crimea Plot Brings Ukraine Tensions to the Brink THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION Politics How the Putin Era Is Tired to August 1991Putin Era […]
Letter From the EditorsFrom Eastern Europe to the Far East: The Sun Never Sets on American Influence FEATURED NEWS STORIES Turkey, Russia Mend Ties – Mostly Russia Accuses Ukraine of Crimea Terror Plot THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION Politics Putin Replaces Chief of Staff: What to Make of ThisPutin Replaces His Longtime Administration Head Sergei Ivanov Elections […]
Letter From the EditorsSeeing Double: How Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Hijacked Politics FEATURED NEWS STORIES Russian Forces Help Syrian Army Blockade Aleppo Trump or Clinton: Which Does Moscow Prefer? THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION Politics Igor Sechin’s Lawyers Threaten Media With Criminal ProsecutionRosneft CEO Sechin Threatens Media With Lawsuit for Spreading ‘Inaccurate Information’ Misfortunes of the […]