What galls is how together with America we defeated Hitler, and how we sympathized when Bin Laden hit them. But they go ahead and scare kids with Communists. These people have no shame. Those are the words of Russian Communist Party member Victor...

Meet Yuri Sharapov. He’s the father of Russian tennis player Maria Sharapova, the country’s top-ranked contender, and this is him earlier this year in Australia, while his daughter was playing a match at the year’s first Grand Slam event...

On May 26th, the United Nations did something it very rarely does. It took a stand. When that happens you know that some country has been caught dead to rights doing something so outrageous that even the cowardly bureaucrats at the UN were compelled...

Vladimir Putin’s Russia has smashed through the looking glass and is now hurtling into the void of utter neo-Soviet insanity. The Moscow Times reports that Putin has announced, while paying a state visit to France during which he’s been...

If my writing on Russia can be said to have a theme, it’s probably “bursting bubbles.” The way I see it, Russian people very often choose to dwell in a world of illusions that simply does not correspond to reality. They choose to...

Instablogs reported yesterday that the U.S. Army thinks it has a crisis on its hands. 115 soldiers committed suicide last year, up nearly 13% from the year before. With just over 500,000 soliders in the U.S. all-volunteer army, that works out to a...

Meet Eugene Ivanov. Blogging on Russian politics at The Ivanov Report, and here at Instablogs Mr. Ivanov describes himself as having received a PhD from the USSR and then, by some mysterious process, as having ended up living the People’s...

I guess Americans should be rejoicing, but if they are I must have missed it. It seems that, using a Russian singer (singing in English) as a proxy, American producers and songwriters have won the “Eurovision” song contest. As far as I...

Just ten days ago, I was reporting on a humiliating defeat for Russian foreign policy in its “little brother” Serbia. Serbian voters overwhelmingly rejected the pro-Russia parties in their parliamentary election, choosing alliance with...

The Moscow Times reports more shockingly bad news for Vladimir Putin’s Russia. In the most recent Global Peace Survey, Russia ranked a jaw-dropping #131 out of 140 countries under survey. Russia has the fifth-highest murder rate on the planet and...