Everybody has their eyes on the Belgian company Distrigas, which will soon become ripe for the picking as Suez will be forced to sell its majority stake as part of its merger requirements with the EC. Among the potential suitors (which is practica...
A Russian soldier takes a break during military training manoeuvers in Siberia, September 2007. The Russian senate has voted to abandon a key Cold War treaty limiting conventional military forces across Europe, a move strongly criticised in the We...
Very interesting news: Nezavisimaya Gazeta, citing a source close to the presidential administration, reported Thursday that Putin was planning to resign after the Duma elections and become a deputy, giving him the legal right to run in the March ...
This week the Wall Street Journal broke a pretty big story: Russia’s Minister of Telecommunications is alleged to illegally own a large chunk of the country’s telecom industry through offshore accounts in the British Virgin Islands. Th...
These are just some of the divisive economic issues that have stalled out EU-Russian relations, preventing a deepening of the partnership. A new analysis from Stratfor argues that despite rapidly growing trade between Russia and the EU, MoscowR...
The atomic monster and its resurrection By Grigory Pasko, journalist On 13 November, the State Duma considered in the third, and final, reading a draft law on the creation of the state corporation «Rosatom». It is to this organization that the sha...
According to reports, a cult of about 30 “simple Christians” have holed up in a cave to await the doomsday, which they believe is approaching next May, in Penza region of central Russia. Police have been dispatched to prevent anyone fr...
Here’s a new think tank analysis from Maj. Gen. (ret.) Kees Homan MA, LL.M of the Clingendael Security and Conflict Programme: Putin is testing Western resolve It seems as if, quite suddenly, arms control is back on the international politic...
For many first-time visitors to Russia, the first thing they notice is the rather dramatic difference in the number of people smoking. Just in time for World No Smoke Day, Rospotrebnadzor has released statistics that makes Russia the #1 smoking co...
People walk past an election poster of the main Kremlin-loyal party, United Russia, near Red Square in Moscow November 14, 2007. The Russian words read “for Putin” and is part of a slogan that runs “Moscow votes for Putin!”...
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