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Barron’s On a Deadly Russian Tax Heist

Bureaucrats and thugs laundered hundreds of millions through Credit Suisse

By Ryan Chittum Apr 20, 2011 at 06:49 PM

Bill Alpert has a must-read story in Barron's this week—a wild tale of overt Russian corruption involving a $230 million... More

How Vladimir Putin Came to Power

Masha Gessen takes a hard look at the Russian president

By Malcolm Forbes Mar 7, 2012 at 03:29 PM

The Man Without A Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin | by Masha Gessen | Riverhead | 304 pages,... More

Meteorite steals asteroid’s thunder

Russian ‘dash cams’ fill web with amateur video

By Curtis Brainard Feb 15, 2013 at 10:45 AM

For the last week, stargazers around the world have been eagerly awaiting the arrival of a 150-meter asteroid that will... More

The Russian Reporters Who Helped Topple the USSR

Remembering a brief, shining, twenty-year-old moment

By Ann Cooper Aug 15, 2011 at 04:37 PM

Twenty years ago, on the evening of August 19, 1991, some of the most brazen and important acts of modern-day... More

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