Sentiment in Russia’s industrial sector fell to levels seen in the late 1990s in November, according to calculations by the ...
Robert D. Kaplan calls Russia’s first post-Soviet decade “near-anarchy” (“Communism Still Haunts Russia,” op-ed, June 9). This is better than the “cursed 1990s” of Kremlin propaganda, but misleading ...
Certain times demand that you put pencil to paper and start taking notes. Otherwise, no one would know — and few might believe — what was really happening. Periods of dramatic political disruption.
MOSCOW -- Elated by the defeat of a hard-line communist coup in August 1991, thousands of mostly young Muscovites gathered in front of the KGB headquarters and argued over how best to seal their ...
To receive Steve Gutterman's Week In Russia each week via e-mail, subscribe by clicking here. Russian President Vladimir Putin took aim at a frequent target -- the 1990s -- in his annual call-in show ...
MOSCOW (AP) — Poverty is rising in Russia at the fastest pace since the dark days of financial and political crisis in the 1990s, the World Bank warned Wednesday. The organization, which slashed its ...
Thirty years ago,in the wake of the Cold War, the powers that be at Sesame Workshop recruited a young documentary filmmaker to bring Sesame Street to Russia. This is her story. Natasha Lance Rogoff ...
OVER the quarter-century since the collapse of the Soviet system, Russian feelings about religion have changed a lot, as one might imagine. In Soviet times, the state expected and encouraged citizens ...
The Russian Aircraft Corporation (RAC) MiG has begun work on a new jet trainer, the MiG-UTS. The program is being launched with some urgency, reusing components from a previous MiG trainer design from ...
Russia's oil output could decline by as much as 17%, Reuters reported Wednesday. The Kremlin is facing its biggest slump in crude production since the early 1990s. The report comes as Western ...