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Russian Affairs

Jul 21, 2007: Sergey Lavrov's Dispute With Foreign Affairs
Comments: 0 | Categories: Foreign Affairs , Opinion & Analysis , Russian Affairs
"Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov issued a statement" July 19, 2007 "explaining his withdrawal of an article that was accepted for publication in the September/October 2007 issue of Foreign Affairs," Maxims News.com reported July 19, 2007 Maxims News.com said, "In...

Jul 18, 2007: Russia, Britain and the Lugovoi Affair
Comments: 0 | Categories: Diplomatic Affairs , Russian Affairs
In a January 17, 2007, post in Russia Profile, writer Shaun Walker observed: "The decision by new British Foreign Secretary David Miliband to expel four Russian diplomats from Britain and tighten visa regulations for Russian officials dominated the front pages...

Nov 20, 2006: Is Russian Intelligence Using Same Tactics Under Different Name?
Comments: 0 | Categories: Intelligence Affairs , Russian Affairs
British writer and journalist Martin Sixsmith reported November 21, 2006, in The Guardian that, "The near-unanimity with which the world concluded that Russia's security services were behind the poisoning of Aleksander Litvinenko suggests that the reputation of the KGB has...

Oct 11, 2006: The AP: 'Activists, Reporters Imperiled in Russia'
Comments: 0 | Categories: Russian Affairs
"Internet postings are calling on Russian nationalists to kill government critics--death lists that underscore the dangers journalists and rights activists face in Russia," Maria Danilova of The Associated Press reported October 11, 2006. To read more, see "Activists, Reporters Imperiled...

Oct 10, 2006: Kommersant: 'Politkovskaya's Murderers Divided into Three' Parties
Comments: 0 | Categories: Russian Affairs
Murdered Russian journalist and author Anna Politkovskaya was buried October 10, 2006 in Troekurovskoe Cemetery in Moscow, according to Kommersant, one of Russia's online dailies. The Novaya gazeta reporter was murdered on October 7, 2006. Kommersant said, "The investigation of...

Oct 9, 2006: Who Killed Anna Politkovskaya?
Comments: 0 | Categories: Russian Affairs
"Who Killed Anna Politkovskaya? " asks Charles Ganske in an October 9, 2006, post at the Russia blog, which "presents up-to-date news, facts and commentary on the state of events in Russia and the former Soviet Union." Mr. Ganske said,...

Oct 8, 2006: Staging a Birthday Rally For Putin In Chechnya
Comments: 0 | Categories: Russian Affairs
According to The Associated Press,"Several thousand youths clad in T-shirts emblazoned with portraits of Vladimir Putin and waving Russian flags on Saturday [October 7, 2006] rallied in the Chechen capital [Grozny] to celebrate the [Russian] president's 54th birthday." The AP...

Oct 8, 2006: Anna Politkovskaya's Suspicious Death
Comments: 0 | Categories: Russian Affairs
The assassination of Anna Politkovskaya, 48,[in Wikipedia photo below] the prominent Russian journalist shot dead on October 7, 2006, in a elevator of her apartment building in Moscow, is the subject of a hard-hitting commentary at Economist.com, that points the...

Aug 4, 2006: Charles Grant: "At Last, Some Hope For Ukraine'
Comments: 0 | Categories: Near Abroads , Opinion & Analysis , Russian Affairs
Charles Grant, director of the Centre for European Reform, asserts in an August 4, 2006 article in Guardian Unlimited's widely-read Comment is Free blog that "The formation of a new government - four months after parliamentary elections - is good...

Jun 22, 2005: Russia To Write Off $16 Billion in African Debt
Comments: 0 | Categories: Russian Affairs
MosNews.Com, citing an Interfax dispatch, reported that Russia "has decided to write off over $16 billion in African countries debts, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Yakovenko told Interfax on June 21, 2005. "I must say right away that Russia is...