1 July 2014

Stories from 1 July 2014

The Perils of the Lunar Putin

RuNet Echo

Aleksandr Dugin, a controversial Russian scholar, says he's lost his job at Moscow State University, claiming that the President's alter ego—the Lunar Putin—is to blame.

1 July 2014

No More Free Petrol in Turkmenistan

There aren't many benefits to living in an energy-rich dictatorship like Turkmenistan, but free energy rationing happens to be one of them. Yet President Gurbanguly Berdymuhamedov, or Arkadag (The Protector),...

1 July 2014