Igor Yurgens, head of the Insitute of Contemporary Development and former Vice President of Renaissance Capital, has “lashed out” at Prime Minister Vladimir Putin for his public criticism of steel and coal group Mechel, signaling “a divide between...
Robert Amsterdam is quoted in today’s Telegraph in a piece on the situation now facing foreign investors in Russia. Vladimir Putin’s comments on Mechel have alerted investors, the article says, to the “Yukos risk” and its “mockery of justice”. Rob...
A Russian Lukoil executive detained in Libya has been freed “hours before Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin was due to host the country’s prime minister.” It is thought that the two will discuss Russia’s hopes of joining a planned pipeli...
Today’s UK Telegraph says that Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s comments about Mechel have made foreign investors “extremely wary of the Russian stock market.” Russian machine builders are calling for state intervention to help them access th...
TODAY: Mechel message could be a signal on the outcome of Khodorkovsky’s case; troops to be withdrawn from Abkhazia; Russian deputy in Cuba; Merkel to make mystery Russian visit next month; WTO membership would have a “substantial” impact on econo...
Standoff in Sochi has begun Grigory Pasko, journalist Last year, when I spoke with inhabitants of the Imereti Valley (the one that’s in Sochi) about their imminent eviction from their homes [because of the 2014 Winter Olympics—Trans.], many said t...
From the Wall Street Journal: A senior Russian diplomat warned that Sen. John McCain’s pledge to eject Russia from the Group of Eight leading nations could eventually lead to a breakdown in relations between Russia and the U.S.
Mafias and pop culture were made each other, at least judging by the international popularity of the Godfather, Sopranos, and countless other locally interpreted spin-offs of the organized crime genre – which often bleeds over into an apprec...
Back at the height of the Cold War, the United States and Russia would vigorously compete to achieve the next greatest milestone in scientific achievement and exploratory bravado – best illustrated of course by the race to put a man in space...
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has visited Elemash, a nuclear energy plant, to look at the production of nuclear fuel and “was interested to know why the plant had to resort to foreign help”. Russia’s labour agency has asked a court to hear a...
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