Clik here to view.
Russian opposition politician Boris Nemtsov was gunned down within sight of...
Russian opposition politician Boris Nemtsov was brutally gunned down on Friday. His murder, on a bridge right beside the famous red-brick walls of the Kremlin, appears to have been calculated to give...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Kremlin says there's no video of Putin critic's murder, but the camera...
MOSCOW (AP) — The investigation into the killing of Boris Nemtsov, a fierce critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin who was gunned down not far from the Kremlin, faced conflicting reports Monday...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Nemtsov's murder reveals the rotten core of Putin's propaganda war
Six years ago I wrote an article for Prospect Magazine in which I argued that Vladimir Putin was highly unlikely to seek a return to the Russian presidency in 2012. It was an article that expressed my...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Russian media is getting feisty after Putin critic Nemstov killed near the...
MOSCOW (Reuters) - A corpse on a bloodstained bridge, with the Kremlin's red stars glowing behind: the perfect symbolic backdrop, Russian media say, for the West to step up a campaign to vilify...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Russian security expert: The time and place of Nemtsov's killing had...
MOSCOW — The killing of opposition Russian politician Boris Nemtsov occurred just steps from the Kremlin in one of the most heavily monitored locations in Moscow. Yet Andrei Soldatov, editor of the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
How to contain Russia without a new Cold War
The debate over whether to arm Ukraine is obscuring a more fundamental strategic choice for the United States— how to deal with Putin’s Russia. The fracturing of the relationship between Russia and the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
REALITY CHECK: Well over 300 journalists have been killed in post-Soviet Russia
MOSCOW — If the track record is anything to go by, Russians may never find out who gunned down liberal activist Boris Nemtsov on a bridge beside the Kremlin last Friday, or why.Mr. Nemtsov, who served...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Russia is turning Crimea into a forward operating base against NATO
Russia is heavily militarizing Crimea as a way to project power deep in to the Black Sea, USNI News reports citing supreme commander of NATO Gen. Philip Breedlove. “What we have seen is that Crimea has...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Russia and Ukraine's latest gas deal spares the EU from a potential supply cut
BRUSSELS (AP) — Russia and Ukraine reached an agreement late Monday to ensure natural gas supplies to war-torn Ukraine for the month of March, averting possible cuts that could have hit supplies to the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Rampant inflation means Russians are spending half of their incomes on food...
An amazing (and horrible) statistic on Russia's grim economic outlook can be found in a Quartz article just out. The article reveals that ordinary Russians are going to be spending half of their...
View ArticleClik here to view.
9 Putin critics who mysteriously died since 2004
Boris Nemtsov, a former deputy prime minister and leading Russian opposition politician, was the latest in a long series of Kremlin critics to die under strange circumstances in the past 10 years.Some...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Hungary's nuclear deal with Russia is now a 30-year secret
Hungary has approved legislation making secret for 30 years key details of a contract with Russia to expand its only nuclear power plant.The government says the measure, which applies to business and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Russia's currency reserves tanked in February
Russia's finance ministry says the country's foreign currency reserves dropped by almost 10 percent in dollar terms in February after the government sought to fill a hole in the state budget, where...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Ukraine to Russia: Give back Crimea!
No normalization of ties between Ukraine and Russia is likely unless the region of Crimea, now under Russian control, is returned to Kiev's sovereignty, Ukrainian foreign minister Pavlo Klimkin said on...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Russia: We would probably let China buy majority stakes in oil and gas fields
Russia has reversed its long-held opposition to selling foreign investors majority stakes in its strategic oil and gas fields, saying there would now be “no political obstacles” to allowing Chinese...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Edward Snowden is 'ready to return to the States'
Moscow (AFP) - Edward Snowden, the fugitive whistleblower who has been given refuge in Russia, is willing to return to the United States if he is given a fair trial, his lawyer said Tuesday."He is...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Moscow's half-empty $12 billion financial district looks worse than you imagined
Moscow's financial district, with its $12 billion worth of skyscrapers, was meant to be a gleaming beacon for Russia's post-Soviet market economy.But now with Russia's economy in free-fall, the Moscow...
View ArticleClik here to view.
US commander: There are 12,000 Russian troops in eastern Ukraine
The US military estimates around 12,000 Russian soldiers are supporting pro-Moscow separatists in eastern Ukraine, U.S. Army Europe Commander Ben Hodges said on Tuesday.The Russian forces are made up...
View ArticleClik here to view.
High-ranking congressional Democrat: The world is split between democracy and...
The world is now divided between the forces of democracy and authoritarianism in a manner similar to the ideological fissures of the Cold War, the House Intelligence Committee's leading Democrat said....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Russia and Egypt just got even closer
Russia and Egypt are taking a major step forward in their relationship. Speaking beside Egyptian Defense Minister Sidqi Sobqi in Moscow, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said that the two nations...
View Article