Russian steel and mining company Evraz Group, part-owned by Roman Abramovich, intends to buy up to 51% of Singapore-listed Delong Holdings for about $1.49 billion. Russia says itconsiders Vietnam “a prospective market”. Temporary restrictions have...
TODAY: Medvedev accuses British Council of espionage; Kosovo leaves Russia isolated in Europe; former nuclear energy minister found guilty of fraud. Dmitry Medvedev says he backs the decision to close down the British Council’s outlets in St...
Last summer our tireless Russia correspondent Grigory Pasko made several long journeys across the vast regions of Russia on various journalism assignments with a video camera in tow. Pasko took advantage of the opportunity to speak with many ordin...
This month BBC Radio 4 is featuring an excellent three-part series of reports by Tim Whewhell entitled “Dancing with the Russian Bear.” Part 1 can be heard here, and Part 2, a segment all about Russia’s “pipeline power̶...
Martin Wolf’s column on Russia from last week’s FT has been provoking some strong reactions, including a letter to the editor from Ambassador Yuri Fedotov. Mr. Fedotov bitterly dismisses Wolf’s criticism, citing economic growth i...
Kosovo’s declaration of sovereignty this weekend carries enormous meaning in terms of international legal precedent. Timothy Waters, who helped prepare the indictment of Slobodan Milosevic, has a column on the JURIST exploring the significan...
Rosneft, Russia’s largest oil producer, has announced plans to build several gas-fired power plants across the country before 2020 as part of an effort to recycle the country’s waste gas and protect the environment. An arm of Rosneft has fil...
The Russian government has renominated a number of key officials to the boards of state companies, including Deputy Prime Minister Alexei Kudrin and Kremlin deputy chief of staff Igor Sechin. For the first time in the history of Russia’s mobile co...
TODAY: Independence for Kosovo ruffles Russia. Nashi forms a children’s movement. Medvedev defends power of presidential role, even with Putin as prime minister. Protesters rally in support of Yukos prisoners. Polish prime minister Donald Tusk urg...
The Prime Minister of Poland writes in the FT about how Europe should handle Russia: Europe must speak with one voice to Russia By Donald Tusk Russia is the largest and one of the most important of the European Union’s neighbours. The challenge is...
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