Last summer when Vladimir Putin boldly declared his interest in building a new global economic “architecture,” eschewing the influence of institutions such as the World Bank and Bretton Woods system, few in the West could predict how exactly Russi...
Just this evening the FT has broken a story of considerable importance: According to an unnamed, high ranking official in Nigeria’s energy sector, Gazprom has made an aggressive offer to make major investments in the African nation’s e...
Special thanks to Fora.tv for this short clip of Estonian PM Ansip addressing the Hoover Institution about the impressive growth of the Estonian economy.
There’s an interesting post over at SRB about the Nashi’s 3rd Congress, which of course featured Vladislav Surkov as the keynote speaker, and the creeping “bureaucratization” of the movement: The Nashisty argue that Russia ...
RFE/RL is reporting that Russia is cutting back on its contributions to the OSCE budget: Russia’s decision to reduce its payments, in a sense, fits into the ongoing debate over the OSCE’s budget for 2008, which has yet to be adopted du...
The Daily Telegraph continues its reporting on the Belkovsky rumor over Vladimir Putin’s secret fortune, this time featuring some terrific quotes from Andrei Illarionov: Illarionov, president of the Moscow-based Institute of Economic Analysi...
Today, and hopefully over the next several months, we are planning to do a significant amount of blogging about Russia from a comparative perspective – focusing often on the commonalities of the Russian experience and the Latin American expe...
Today: Russia’s relations wtih UK and Ukraine in trouble; Greenpeace Russia to focus on Kyoto Protocol and possibly sue the IOC; Moscow’s building boom; movie-going culture on the up. The British Council says that its legal position in...
Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin says that Russia will not be affected by changes in oil prices, as it has “prepared” for fluctuations with a strong reserve. Lukoil and Gazprom have established a Regional Development joint venture to focus on a numb...
With all the hubbub in Russia’s online community regarding LiveJournal and increased internet watchdogs, another frightening development has been added to the mix, this time involving Russia’s campaign to establish a new Cyrillic inter...
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