If given more freedom to invest, Russia “could soon follow the Middle Eastern sovereign wealth funds and invest billions of dollars in direct overseas investments.” Deputy Finance Minister Dmitry Pankin says Russia should keep investing its oil an...
Russia’s annual economic forum in London saw the country praised as “an island of stability” and “a rainbow in the storm”, although the hall was half-empty, sparking further speculation that the Kremlin had “actively discouraged Russians from atte...
TODAY: Russia-Georgia row escalates after spy plane is shot down, Russia-Kyrgyzstan relations worsen. Moscow play banned; wireless devices to be government-registered; US presidential candidates show anti-Russian sentiment; US pastor sentenced. Th...
Today it was announced that President Vladimir Putin has been awarded the Nobel prize for his service for Russia, celebrated by the selection committee for having stopped the “robberies and murders” that took place during the “ch...
Keeping in mind that this clip comes via Russia Today, the Kremlin’s version of Fox News-style partisan pro-government coverage, it is nevertheless an interesting interview with Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin – a man with many enemies ...
It appears the answer to this question depends on the audience. The Harvard historian Prof. Richard Pipes has a letter published in today’s FT pointing out two very different statements made by president-elect Dmitry Medvedev with regard to ...
Articles in the Moscow Times, Times of London, and now, the Guardian have commented on the blogger/statistician Sergei Shpilkin’s analysis of Russia’s presidential election returns – a study which found that a disproportionate nu...
Tim Osborne, a British solicitor and businessman challenging the Russian government over its break-up of Yukos, has blamed the Kremlin for restrictions on his foreign travel. Producers are struggling to meet oil demands. Russia closed down a react...
Bank of Moscow, the bank controlled by the Moscow government, plans to raise as much as $380 million selling new shares to increase lending. “European wood prices are shooting up as Russia raises export tariffs.” As part of a global railway boom, ...
TODAY: Paper that alleged Putin was to re-marry is shut down; Boris Berezovsky launches lawsuit against Roman Abramovich; Russia to ease tensions with Georgia amidst US “concern”. Following accusations by Vladimir Putin of “snotty noses and erotic...
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