RUSSIAN FESTIVALYesterday the fourth annual Russia Festival of Winter took place in Trafalgar Square in London, bringing together thousands of dancers and performers, supermodel presenters, footballer Alexey Smertin, pop star Dima Bilan, and plent...
We linked to this one from the Moscow Times in our News Blast today, but I think the story is one to follow closely. Reporting on the opening of the Russian government-sponsored “Institute of Democracy and Cooperation”, journalist Alex...
Oh, well I suppose this is a “reassuring sign” from the London-Moscow dispute over the allegedly “illegal” operations of the British Council in Russia. The Guardian quotes James Kennedy, who heads up the St. Petersburg offi...
In her posthumously published book of journals, Anna Politkovskaya wrote of several encounters with Beslan victims’ rights group, including the following: “We, the mothers of Beslan,” Marina Park says, “are guilty of having...
Lukoil, Russia’s largest private oil producer, said full-year profit exceeded $8 billion last year, a rise of at least 7%. Aluminum producer RusAl has secured long-term electricity supplies to insure against the tariff hike expected after po...
Toyota plans to begin assembly of a new budget model at its St. Petersburg plant. Accounts of the Central Bank of Russia (CBR) and of a number of Russia’s companies have been frozen in France under the Swiss Noga lawsuit – Russia’s debt to t...
TODAY: Medvedev on tour; the British Council continues to defy orders from the Russian government and the UK ambassador has been summoned by the foreign ministry; Russia to boost overseas image; Russia and Ukraine are keen for economic cooperation...
From the Sunday Herald: “But just as Bolton brought unwanted baggage with him when Bush appointed him US ambassador to the UN, so too does Rogozin go to Nato with a preconceived agenda. He’s no friend of the north Atlantic alliance and...
Kelly Toughill, a former Toronto Star reporter and current instructor at the School of Journalism at the University of King’s College in Halifax, finds herself in some surprising discussions with Russian students about what real “freed...
Geoffrey York, a journalist from the Globe and Mail whom I know and respect greatly, had a very interesting article run in the paper on Friday about International Trade Minister David Emerson’s decision to back down from making any commentar...
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