by CBBSS | Dec 31, 2020 | International News and Analysis
The Russian business site slon.ru published an article analyzing the “Ten sad lessons of 2014 for Russian hightech,”(in Russian).Among them: Russia’s largest internet companies such as Yandex, mail.ru and Qiwi have all lost more than 50% of their...
by CBBSS | Dec 31, 2020 | International News and Analysis
An article in today’s New York Times describes the brutal tactics used by Putin and Gazprom to force the pro-Russian former Bulgarian government to support the South Stream pipeline project, despite the fact that it did not serve Bulgaria’s national...
by CBBSS | Dec 31, 2020 | International News and Analysis
The radicalization of European Muslim youth is much deeper than usually assumed and and the number of European jihadists in ISIS and Al-Nusra front much greater. Read original...
by CBBSS | Dec 31, 2020 | Regional News
The window-on-Eurasia blog of Paul Goble comments on the costs Putin’s misrule has burdened the Russian people with. At a time when the Kremlin is closing hospitals, cutting the salaries of teachers and letting the road system fall into disrepair, two of his pet...
by CBBSS | Dec 31, 2020 | Regional News
More than 1,000 people gathered in the freezing cold at Moscow’s Manezh Square Tuesday night to protest a guilty verdict issued earlier in the day in an embezzlement case against opposition leader Alexei Navalny and his brother Oleg. Both brothers received...