The Central Bank of Russia is claiming that the liquidity crisis has strengthened banking finances. Prime Minister Viktor Zubkov has “refused to recognize even the signs of the impending collapse of liquidity,” commenting that the bank system “has...
TODAY: Russia run by the KGB? OSCE to boycott presidential elections. Aleksanyan to receive treatment in a civilian clinic. Polish Prime Minister in Russia for “rough” talks. According to one sociologist, “an astounding 78% of the country’s ...
Even the cream of Russia’s penitentiary service, the flower of the State’s militocracy, can make a mistake once in a while. However, the dramatic error committed yesterday by the Siberian bureaucratic management, which allowed Neil Buckley of the ...
From Reuters: Dmitry Medvedev, likely to be Russia’s next president, says the country’s so rich from an oil-fuelled boom that billions can be doled out simply by a click of the fingers. “Money today is not a problem at all: only ...
Marek Menkiszak, a Polish academic at the Warsaw University’s Centre for Eastern Studies, is quoted by Interfax today talking about the central problems in EU-Russia relations: “I think the fundamental problem in Russia’s approac...
Here is Part 3 of the Grigory Pasko interviews – a brief discussion of freedom of press in Russia following the assassination of Anna Politkovskaya, and the future role of the internet. See Bob’s intro to the series here.
The following is an exclusive translation of an important article from the German newspaper Die Welt about the case of Vasily Alexanyan (Aleksanyan, Alexanian). The original version can be read on our German-language blog here. Putin abuses justic...
Below is a short outtake from a recent Robert Amsterdam speech at the Russian, East European and Eurasian Center of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In this short clip, Bob describes all the steps taken by the Russian prosecutors to...
$100,000 says we are running out of oil faster than you think, peak-oil group tells US consultancy The Association for the Study of Peak Oil-USA (Aspo-USA) is so sure that world oil-supply growth will fall short of a recent forecast by a US energy...
The lack of investment reciprocity between Europe and Russia, especially in energy assets, is beginning to raise some concerns among officials – especially considering that the president-to-be recently called upon the business sector to go o...
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