We agree with the concerns raised in this new Financial Times op/ed that the Russian government’s bailout plan is unlikely to be distributed evenly and fairly, and will likely reward certain political expediencies. However this argument that...
The following is a translation of an article which appeared last week in Spain’s leading newspaper, El País, coinciding with the anniversary of the death of journalist Anna Politkovskaya. The original article can be read here. Russia’s Growi...
Well, that sure was fast. Today for the first time since war broke out between the two countries, delegations from Russia and Georgia met at the United Nations in Geneva for peace talks aimed at resolving tensions. However, no sooner than the Russ...
Yesterday we blogged about the death of hockey star Alexei Cherepanov. Today an ESPN columnist makes a call for greater transparency in Russia’s top league, the KHL: Many hockey people who have been to Russia in recent years — whether ...
Today the New York Times has published a “Last Call” for a number of people to pose op/ed questions before the candidates as the debate approaches tonight. It’s interesting that the Democrat Bill Bradley has chosen to throw out t...
I was emailed the other day by La Russophobe, whose disagreements with this blog are robust, asking to bring attention to the case of the Russian literature professor Boris Sokolov, who appears to have lost both his position at the university as w...
The press and blogosphere are of course having a field day with the news that executives from Gazprom are enjoying a road show in Alaska this week to woo local representatives and meet with ConocoPhillips, possibly discussing participation in natu...
The government is to lend its four major energy companies up to $9 billion to help them survive the financial crisis. Gazprom has announced that it has offered to help Alaska develop its natural resources, and has accordingly sent a group of senio...
It is expected that a slowdown in growth across the board in all sectors, and particularly for finance specialists, will lead to severe job losses. This report indicates that emerging market stocks, including Russia’s, have fallen harder in the la...
TODAY: Russian armed forces to be halved; Russia-Georgia talks begin amid pessimism; China and Russia solve border dispute; nepotism case sees sixteen notaries fired; Russia supplying arms to Darfur, says human rights group. Politkovskaya hearings...
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