A Barclays Capital report is the first from a bank to indicate that Russia’s economy could fall into recession next year as falling oil prices slow growth rates into negative numbers and reserves diminish. Russians are ‘hoarding&...
TODAY: Abkhazia struggling under Russian influence?; EU and US can’t agree on Russia; Piontkovsky article; Russia adds Nicaragua to its Latin American portfolio; blogger accused of ‘satanism’. An opinion survey of ‘transatl...
The following press release was issued this evening from the offices of the President of the European Parliament Hans-Gert Pöttering: EP President Hans-Gert Pöttering expresses solidarity with the family of Mikhail Khodorkovsky Earlier today the P...
I like Michael Idov. Even when I disagree with his opinions on certain trends in Russia, which is not infrequent, I’m left with the impression of hard-earned restraint. His article posted to The New Republic today examining the choices...
Reuters is reporting that the clever minds over at the Nashi are whipping up a ultra-nationalist beauty pageant: The winner of a new Russian beauty contest must be attractive, talented and witty. But never mind wanting to help children. She should...
This is certainly scary to read. RFE/RL has an article quoting a new report from the Committee to Protect Journalists citing than almost half of the world’s imprisoned journalists are bloggers or online editors/reporters. Russia ...
The «Russian Federation» Corporation Grigory Pasko, journalist On 10 December at the Marriott Grand Hotel in Moscow, the Association for the Protection of the Rights of Investors held a conference on «Corporate Governance in Russia – The Cur...
In about an hour, we are expecting a foregone conclusion during an award ceremony to crown deputy prime minister Igor Sechin as Russia’s best CEO – an event not lacking in irony. What must be one of the most unusual awards around is gi...
Andy Young at Siberian Light has posted a rant to vent some frustration over the constant paradoxical criticism he faces for being both too pro-Kremlin and too Russophobic. The comment thread below the post is developing into something inter...
The US government has announced that global oil demand will drop for the first time since the early 1980s, in line with falling economic growth. Oil and gas companies are seeing exploration and production costs rising as energy prices fall.&...
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