Russia

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Rebuilding the Russian family

Carolyn Moynihan | 20 June 2011 |

tags: Demographic Summit, family values, Russia

A demographic summit to be held in Moscow next week sees family values as the key to Russia’s population woes.

Russia: rule of law on trial

Mikhail Khodorkovsky | 17 December 2010 |

tags: governance, Russia, Yukos case

A verdict due on the Yukos oil case will decide whether Russia will become a country of freedom and law or become stuck in Soviet-like repression, says one of the accused.

Sorrow and anger at Poland’s tragedy

Adam Chmielewski and Denis Dutton | 14 April 2010 |

tags: democracy, Poland, Russia

The air-crash which decapitated Poland’s state elite may owe something to reckless behaviour, official negligence - and the flaws of modern democracy itself.

Is the Polish tragedy Russia’s opportunity?

Marko Papic | 13 April 2010 |

tags: Polish plane crash, Russia, Stratfor

One effect of the air crash killing Polish political leaders is to give Russia a chance to intensify its 'charm offensive' on Poland.

Ukraine’s election and Russian resurgence

Peter Ziehan | 27 January 2010 |

tags: Russia, Ukraine

With the election on February 7 the Orange Revolution will shudder to a halt.

Lithuania defies EU to promote family values

Bryan P. Bradley | 27 December 2009 |

tags: family values, homosexuality, Lithuania, Russia

Sidestepping critics, Baltic nation strengthens family-friendly law on public information.

Will chemical weapons proliferate?

Michael Crowley | 28 October 2009 |

tags: chemical weapons, Russia

The danger of security agencies, military forces and violent groups using “incapacitatant” chemical agents to disable adversaries has grown since the Moscow theatre siege of 2002. International regulation is needed.

Russia, Iran and the Biden speech

George Friedman and Peter Zeihan | 27 October 2009 |

tags: Biden, Iran, Obama, Russia, Stratfor

The Obama Administration's aggressive diplomacy in Eastern Europe could sink its hopes for a peaceful resolution of its conflict with Iran.

Russia champions ‘traditional values’

Carolyn Moynihan | 23 October 2009 |

tags: human rights, Russia, United Nations, values

Struggling with family decay and population decline, Russia wants the UN to get down to tin tacks on the subject of human rights.

Russia looks to its religious culture

Viktor Malukhin | 30 September 2009 |

tags: Orthodox Church, religious education, Russia

The Orthodox Church has won its battle to make religious education compulsory in schools, but secularists have won concessions too.

Russia, Poland and the history wars

Rodric Braithwaite | 18 September 2009 |

tags: Europe, Poland, Russia, Second World War

On the 70th anniversary of the Soviet Army's invasion of Poland a British diplomat understands why Poles are not quick to give the Russians credit for occasionally getting things right.

Russia at the crossroads

Nicolai Petro | 11 September 2007 |

tags: atheism, Christianity, Islam, Russia

As it embraces globalisation and capitalism Russia is also rediscovering a pre-1917 religious and cultural heritage that is often at odds with both communism and capitalism.