“It’s America to be blamed for all that!” insist television propagandists and high ranking Russian officials. Well, that’s really something new, as before it was Chubais to be blamed for everything. Though, all that reminds of a senior...

While a week ago we could say that the crisis in the Russian stock market was provoked with American financial crisis, making the whole globe unstable, then the developments of the last week can be called a purely Russian story. Fall of...

The interview by Prime Minister Putin to CNN and the attempts in general by the Russian officials to deliver their point of view on the Caucasian developments to the western audience demonstrate well the traps the unfree political regime...

The final of the political season this year – the last decade of July - has been exceptionally expressive. Dmitry Medvedev tried to outline the main plot of this decade at a working meeting in the city of Gagarin. As it is known, there he...

Imitation is no lying. On the contrary, this is a kind of a respectable genre of ancient painting and interior design art. In a museum hall of 17th century we could see a shelf with ancient-looking books, an ink-pot and a skull near it....

On the last day of May the former Russian ambassador in the USA Yuri Ushakov was appointed deputy head of the apparatus of the government. That means not only serious foreign division in the Putin’s office will be formed but also direct...