Entrance to an IKEA store in Rostov, Russia. As economy is sliding down, and even the construction of the Moscow City is up in the air, one would think that Russians, and Kremlin especially,...

Journalist Anna Politkovskaya, killed in 2006 in what appeared to be a contract murder. Political killings have declined in recent years in Russia, but still tend to blot Russia's image in the...

by Oleg Elshin Executive Director, EastKommerts Investment Group, Moscow A year ago I by chance witnessed a very unusual situation in a London street. Just next to the Bank of England around thirty Englishmen queued up outside a Northern Rock bank ...

Presidents Barack Obama and Dimitry Medvedev at their first meeting on April 1, 2009 in London, UK There is no shortage of solicited and unsolicited advisors and pieces of advice for the upcoming...

Fans grieve Jackson’s death in downtown St Petersburg (image from NTV news report) Today, undoubtedly, the biggest world news is the unexpected death of Michael Jackson, the only true King of...

Economic crisis might have affected those who are old, wise, and worked hard for their money. However, it hasn’t done much damage to young, reckless Russians who simply don’t know what money is or where it comes from. Lake Geneva, Switzerland,...

The Kremlin may well want to encourage speculation as to whether President Medvedev was truly instructing Prime Minister Putin on making state enterprises "comptetitve", but it is wholly unlikely that the two would do anything that wasn't pre-arranged...

Two trends of Russian government policy seem to be shifting, as witnessed by President Medvedev's major address today in Moscow. The first is the tendency in recent years for government to punish those individuals and companies deemed guilty of...

In the past two decades, the world has witnessed yet another historical opportunity missed: the fall of the Berlin Wall has not led to a logical conclusion – Russia’s full economic, political and even military integration with Europe and the West...

Photo Source: Associated Press If you're looking for behind-the-scenes insight, one of the better places to find it is through reports and assessments from STRATFOR, a leader in geopolitical intelligence, analysis and research. Yesterday, in its...