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‘Russia Watch’

James BrookeMoving Russia’s capital east isn’t the crazy idea it sounds. Planned capitals around the world have helped several countries refocus their economies

Tunneling to America?

28/04/2012 20:09

First dreamed up under the tsars, the Trans-Bering railway link plan could become a reality

Bout – game not over?

26/04/2012 20:58

The so-called ‘merchant of death,’ sentenced to 25 years in prison, may know too much

God bless NATO?

16/04/2012 21:02

When it comes to Afghanistan, Cold War-style tactics are backfiring on the Kremlin

The road less traveled

12/04/2012 21:10

After 1,000 years, citizen responsibility could finally make Russia’s roads bearable

Stalin in your school

05/04/2012 21:22

Failing to acknowledge the brutality of the past does modern Russia no favors

Mental whiplash

02/04/2012 21:33

After Mitt Romney pulled a Putin, Americans in Moscow suddenly had few things to be smug about

Romney, Russia and missile defense

29/03/2012 21:21

The Afghan baton

22/03/2012 20:52

Talk of an early withdrawal from Afghanistan is intensifying in the U.S. – time for Russia to step in?

Riotous assembly

19/03/2012 21:21

Illegal performances have made Pussy Riot famous. Will a Kremlin crackdown make them martyrs too?

Churov’s mission impossible

15/03/2012 21:20

Send Russia’s elections chief to observe Alaska’s elections! He could bond with Sarah Palin

Dealing with the silent majority

07/03/2012 21:57

Russia’s opposition now has to deal with the fact that most people voted for Putin

Two tribes go to war

01/03/2012 21:25

This Sunday, two radically different Russias will collide in the presidential election

Getting physical with Prokhorov

22/02/2012 21:19

Russia’s presidential election is best understood through body language

Revolt of the well-fed, well-dressed and well-informed

16/02/2012 23:09

For today’s middle-class Russians, the 1990s are as distant as Ivan the Terrible

Springtime for Schwarzenegger

09/02/2012 21:12

For Russia’s young urban hipsters, a defrosted Moscow could see more, not fewer, protests

A Suez moment for Russia?

02/02/2012 21:13

Russian officials view Syria through a zero-sum lens

Russia and Iran – uneasy neighbors

23/01/2012 21:01

Russia’s peculiar policy toward Iran’s nuclear program has historic roots

Artistic ferment behind Russia’s protests

18/01/2012 12:19

Art, live theater and opposition newspapers have long been largely allowed free rein in Russia. But now political satire draws millions of online viewers too

Avoiding a new Bloody Sunday

16/01/2012 20:37

With Russia’s painful history in mind, democracy protesters are after peaceful reform, not revolution

Are astronauts playing Russian rocket roulette?

10/01/2012 13:00

Laughter and defiance on Sakharov Avenue

26/12/2011 20:52

Protesters grew even more creative when it came to thumbing their noses at the Kremlin

Is Russia ready for the Arctic Era?

22/12/2011 21:37

The Kolskaya rig tragedy raises new concerns about the nation’s lax safety culture

Is Dmitry Rogozin a secret Tea Party fan?

19/12/2011 20:58

Russia’s ambassador to NATO, in threatening to block U.S. military supplies to Afghanistan, could be helping American taxpayers

December evolution

12/12/2011 21:18

Fed up with corruption, the middle class is light years ahead of the Kremlin

TV generation vs. Internet generation

08/12/2011 21:19

The state-run channels won round one. But the online opposition will not be silenced

Making a stand in Syria

01/12/2011 20:42

Russia clings to Soviet-era military ties as it seeks to maintain a foothold in the Mediterranean

A hazy vision for Putin 2.0

21/11/2011 20:44

As the PM sketches out his plans for the next decade, is the ground shifting under his feet?

Two marches, two generations

14/11/2011 21:03

The nationalists were young and angry, while the Communists were old and nostalgic. Guess who got to march near the Kremlin?

Moscow is not a sexual Disneyland

10/11/2011 20:59

Want to draw a nationalist crowd? Mention street harassment by men from the Caucasus

Artists set to follow writers with walk of their own

15/05/2012 16:43

Leave the office behind

14/05/2012 21:08

Onishchenko wary of Dutch vegetables

14/05/2012 18:35

Cable’s growing challenge

14/05/2012 20:48

Navalny to issue bank cards to fight corruption

15/05/2012 17:47

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