Can you imagine a government in which the head of the healthcare system is friends with a major drug dealer? In which drugs that are guaranteed to kill a person in two years and irreversibly alter their brains immediately are sold in...

The Kremlin’s natural gas policy has undergone a massive change since the time of the economic crisis. Instead of threatening to unleash its “energy weapon”, the Kremlin has started selling gas assets, and instead of striving to conquer...

Take reform in the army, for example. The present Minister of Defence, Anatoly Serdyukov, is a reasonably able administrator, and in any other country he would have long since been able to finish the reforms. But in order to carry out...

Do you remember what you were busy with on the day when Khodorkovsky was arrested? I remember that exactly. I was sitting and writing some text about the peninsula of Tuzla. Then my phone rang, and Tuzla disappeared from my mind forever....

The release from prison of finance deputy minister Sergei Storchak has been one of the consequences of the biggest sharing out of power for the recent years. From now on – after the financial crisis has happened – it will be no...

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has given his reading of the ways of overcoming the financial crisis. The President has called Europe to making a new global order where the role by the US would be reduced. Right at the moment when the...