Russia’s lack of support for a cut in oil production is causing problems for OPEC, which has agreed to remove an additional 2.2 million barrels of crude from the market, starting in January. Russia’s retreat makes Azerbaijan the ...
The ruble has fallen to an all-time low against the euro. There have been seven devaluations of the ruble since early November, with analysts predicting more frequent and dramatic drops. The number of overdue market payments has increa...
TODAY: Motorist protests are first sign of public anger over financial crisis, activists concerned over widening of treason definition; Russia to give Lebanon fighter jets; Medvedev to have early meeting with Obama.Protests by Russian motorists on...
Writing in the Moscow Times, Yulia Latynina thinks that that the Russian government should be more worried about losing territory to China in the long-term than collective security in Europe in the short term. The answer: focus on economic d...
Defining treason in legal terms is an inherently political process, fraught with bitter contention, weight of history, suspicions of abuse, and no shortage of nationalist grandstanding. But probably not for Russia, which this week introduced...
The following is an exclusive translation from RBK Daily on the preparations being made by the Russian security forces to handle an uprising or unrest over the economic crisis. In expectation of uprisings The powers have rethought reducing interio...
Yesterday we blogged that Russia had a number of reasons to stay outside the sway of OPEC, not least because they wouldn’t want to risk their hard-earned international standing in groups such as the G8 and the succession effort to the WTO, b...
We’ve done a fair amount of blogging about the case of the terminally ill former Yukos general counsel Vasily Alexanyan, who after spending years in prison under no charges and subjected to essentially fatal medical blackmail, was recently g...
The highly-anticipated OPEC meeting is being held today in Algeria, where members and non-members, including Russia, will discuss what is expected to be a significant cut in production – currently being reported at 2 million barrels per day ...
Russia’s economic situation is worsening by the day – ‘the big question is whether the regime’s political control will crack too.‘ Despite the financial crisis, Russia’s arms exports will exceed $8 billion...
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