Is Moscow a good partner or a loose canon?by Elena Chinyaeva MOSCOW, Russia–It is July and Moscow has been suffering through a heat wave. Political life is near the boiling point. For the second consecutive year, the State Duma, Russia’s lower house of parliament, has postponed its summer vacation to approve a batch of legislation that is to be the […]

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