Dursun - Instablogs
Aug 22 2009
Chechen Islamist rebels opened a deadly new front in their war against Russian and Chechen authorities yesterday with a series of attacks in Grozny, all carried out by suicide bombers riding bicycles. The attacks, which killed at least four police...
Jun 15 2009
Relations have soured between the last dictator in Europe and his closest ally after a “milk war” erupted between Belarus and Russia. Alexander Lukashenko, the President of Belarus, snubbed a meeting of former Soviet republics in Moscow yesterday...
May 23 2009
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has warned the European Union not to turn a proposed partnership with former Soviet countries against Moscow. Mr Medvedev was speaking at the end of a Russia-EU summit held against a background of deep divisions over...
Oct 16 2008
If the MPAA and RIAA are to be believed, rather than buying media, file-sharers around the world are saving billions of dollars by downloading copyrighted material instead. For these people, we now have the ultimate solution to salve their ‘guilt’....
Oct 12 2008
Interesting that RenCap today seems to be pivoting to a “4% ” GDP forecast in broad terms. I think today’s shift by them is consistent with our view of a brief but nasty retraction in the Russian economy in Q4 FY08 and gentle recovery next year...
Mar 12 2008
Most people know what communism is at its most basic level. Simply put, communism is the idea that everyone in a given society receives equal shares of the benefits derived from labor. Communism is designed to allow the poor to rise up and attain...
Feb 29 2008
When journalists tell you that a story they are working on is “boring” and “dreary,” you know it is unlikely to capture the imaginations of readers and television viewers worldwide. Those are precisely the words that foreign...
Feb 29 2008
The Russian presidential campaign has all the hallmarks of a free and fair election. The rallies are frenzied, the slogans urgent. But 300 international observers, in Russia to monitor this weekend’s ballot, have warned that their final report is...