WAITING FOR THE AMERICAN GODOT
The national media are actively discussing the upcoming American retaliation campaign and its outcomes for the world and Russia. Most analysts are pessimistic: they...
Russia and the West: will a rhetorical confrontation lead to complete chaos and a...
Gleb Pavlovsky, head of the Effective Policy Foundation, said in an interview with Nezavisimaya Gazeta that there are three circumstances which might prevent President...
Farewell, Georgia!
The topic of Georgia has certainly dominated the headlines over the past few days. Sharply-worded statements from senior officials, a rare unanimity among Duma...
THE UNITED STATES VERSUS IRAQ, AND RUSSIA VERSUS GEORGIA: THE PROSPECTS OF CONFRONTATION
On the anniversary of September 11, Kommersant-Vlast magazine calculated that over the past twelve months President Putin had expressed support for his US counterpart...
The president and the citizens: a conversation?
"Let's maintain the suspense on that," said Vladimir Putin after his live broadcast, when journalists asked him what he plans to do after 2008....
POLITICS IN JULY: A PREMONITION OF AUTUMN STORMS
In the heat of July, the press has suddenly started talking of autumn storms.
The demonstrations outside Parliament by opponents of the new Labor Code,...
The YUKOS verdict: freedom for Mikhail Khodorkovsky
The announcement of the verdict and sentence in the YUKOS case drew an entirely predictable response from the press - and it was all...
THE ANTI-TERRORIST OPERATION, "ISLAM REARRANGING THE WORLD", AND RUSSIA’S FOREIGN POLICY: THE RUSSIAN ELITE...
"After a month's hiatus, some analysis is once again appearing in the Western media," commented Novaya Gazeta the other day. "Political opinion essays are...
Topics of the week: party-building and freedom of speech in Russia
The media acknowledged the top political story of the week to be the merger between Fatherland and Unity - the two parties of Russia's...
THE WAR BETWEEN THE NORTH AND THE SOUTH HAS BEGUN, AND AS USUAL RUSSIA...
"In the face of today's new threat, the only way to pursue peace is to pursue those who threaten it," said President George Bush...