Tag Archives: Russia

State tenders and Navalny’s crusades

Posted on March 22, 2011 by Allantoin

Another repost of something I’ve done for work (hence the less frank tone of the post, although I added some notes in italics in parentheses). On March 5, the Ministry of Economic Development published the conceptual framework of the draft … Continue reading →

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Kremlinology vs. sociology of elites

Posted on March 21, 2011 by Allantoin

Today I attended another Kennan Institute event: Reassessing Russia’s Decision Making Community: Intra-elite Conflicts, Political and Business Networks, and Ideological Constructions, with Marlene Laruelle, Senior Research Fellow, Russian and Eurasian Studies Program, Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, … Continue reading →

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“Khodorkovsky. Pipes/Corpses”: preparations for third YUKOS trial begin?

Posted on March 18, 2011 by Allantoin

A curious film surfaced on the Internet recently. It is called Khodorkovsky. Pipes/Corpses (it’s a mediocre wordplay: in Russian, the word “pipes” (truby) and the word “corpses” (trupy) only differ by one letter) and it was made by a journalist Andrey … Continue reading →

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10 Most Innovative Companies in Russia

Posted on March 16, 2011 by Allantoin

Randomly saw a list of the 10 “most innovative” companies in Russia on Fast Company website. Here are the winners: Yandex, Internet search company; Kaspersky Lab, most known for its Internet antivirus program; ABBYY, maker of text recognition and linguistics … Continue reading →

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Murder of Russian journalists

Posted on March 15, 2011 by Allantoin

A while ago, on February 28th, I attended Kennan Institute event, Killed Without Consequence: Why the Murder of Russian Journalists Matters Beyond Russia, with Nina Ognianova, Program Coordinator, Europe and Central Asia, Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). The talk was … Continue reading →

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Dress code for women in Chechnya

Posted on March 11, 2011 by Allantoin

Human Rights Watch (HRW) yesterday released a 40-page report called You Dress According to Their Rules: Enforcement of an Islamic Dress Code for Women in Chechnya. (Full PDF version of the report can be downloaded here.) It’s about time for such a report. … Continue reading →

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Civilian casualties in the North Caucasus

Posted on March 10, 2011 by Allantoin

Via Vladimir Milov: Number of civilian casualties (non-combatant deaths) per 100,000 people in 2010: Iraq, Ingushetia, Afghanistan, Kabardino-Balkaria, Dagestan, and Russia’s North Caucasus as a whole So, Ingushetia (part of Russia’s North Caucasus Federal District) nears Iraq in number of civilian … Continue reading →

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International Women’s Day

Posted on March 8, 2011 by Allantoin

Happy International Women’s Day! In Russia, it has become a vomit-inducing feast of mawkishness with no connection whatsoever to what it was supposed to be: an occasion to promote gender equality and women’s right, created by socialist female activist Klara … Continue reading →

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Sochi-2014 Olympic mascots

Posted on March 4, 2011 by Allantoin

So, Russia selected the mascots for the Winter Olympics that will take place in the Russian city of Sochi in 2014. Here they are: The Leopard:  The Polar Bear:  The Hare (Zayka):  The mascots drew criticisms from all over the … Continue reading →

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Putin killed Kenny

Posted on March 3, 2011 by Allantoin

“Oh my God, they killed Kenny! You bastards!!!” Apparently, the word on the Russian street has been for quite a while that “Putin wants to kill Kenny” – Kenny symbolizing democracy in Russia, of course. Specifically, the buzz was about … Continue reading →

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