Windows to Russia

Russia is threatening a political crisis and the Russian government is less legitimate in the eyes of the citizens, from the report by the Center for Strategic Research. Ending this political crisis requires fair elections, the loss of most of the “United Russia” people in the State Duma and the substitution of the first three […]

What you see above is a cruise missile in action. They have been hitting the capital of Libya with these… The coalition is perfect and kills no civilians… However, US Defense Secretary Robert Gates has dismissed assertions by the Libyan government that coalition strikes have killed nearly 200 civilians. In a taped interview with American […]

Anna Chapman, the “sultry Russian secret agent” who hit the headlines last year after being exposed as a deep-cover operative in the United States, says she bears no ill will towards the man who betrayed her. And why should she? Since being freed as part of a dramatic spy swap deal in Vienna in July […]

Yuri Tatarchuk has a disconcerting way of demonstrating Chernobyl’s grim radioactive legacy. An official guide at the wrecked nuclear power plant, he waves his radiation counter at a group of abandoned Soviet army vehicles that were used in the battle to clean up the contamination created by the reactor explosion in 1986. “Some of these […]

Cows will be calmer, doctors happier and crooks less active. That’s the thinking as Russia puts forward its clocks for the last time this weekend. Leading the way in an incipient global trend that rejects the notion of changing the clocks in spring and autumn, the Russian authorities believe the move will reduce human – […]

Kremlin-controlled oil group Rosneft insists it is pressing ahead with its controversial alliance with BP, after the venture was blocked by a Stockholm court. Igor Sechin, Rosneft’s chairman and Russia’s deputy prime minister, declared he intended to proceed with the alliance and claimed the court had merely extended an existing temporary injunction on the project […]

Being from America most my life. I have a tendency to still equate my life in America to Russia. One of the hardest times to conform mentally to the differences is when you first wake up in the morning… Sometimes I wake up and forget that the world I live in is so vastly physically […]

Russia’s former ambassador to Libya has stoked new tension between President Dmitry Medvedev and Vladimir Putin, the prime minister, after calling the Kremlin’s acquiescence to air strikes targeting Libya a “betrayal of Russia’s interests”. Putin and Medvedev, who are close political allies, appeared to clash on Monday after the former condemned support for the bombing […]

BP’s controversial alliance with the Kremlin-controlled oil company Rosneft is in tatters after a tribunal backed the company’s Russian partners in blocking the deal. The London tribunal, called to settle the dispute between BP and its Russian oligarch partners AAR over the proposed deal, ruled that the temporary high court injunction preventing it from being […]

U.S. President Barack Obama told Russian President Dmitry Medvedev that he was committed to support Russia’s bid to join the World Trade Organization (WTO). Obama and Medvedev spoke by phone on Thursday to discuss a wide range of issues in U.S.-Russia relations. “President Obama affirmed his support for Russia’s accession into the WTO this year […]