Photo: Andrei Shchukin - Kopia mnimoi realnosti So the three of us should be ashamed. All this talk of re-launching the blog and the alon...

Image: Alexander Blosiak, openspace.ru From IKEA’s Russian woes to maniacal cops on a deadly rampage, Andrei Loshak sees today’s Russia as...

This year is the year of Russia in France and France in Russia - an “année croisée”, marked by around 400 events in the political, econom...

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С Новым Годом! Happy New Year, faithful blog reader! Yes indeed, if you are still out there, despite our prolonged absence, then thank ...

Much of the coverage of Russian President Dmitri Medvedev’s State of The Nation Address has been fairly negative. ‘We’ll believe it when we ...