“Annexation” is not a word heard frequently in the Russia debate, but it surfaced this week after Moscow established official relations with the separatist states of South Ossetia and Abkhazia – a move they had threatened to make...
It has become shorthand for journalists to describe Russia as “resurgent” and dramatically “more powerful” than it was in the year 2000. We generally accept this fact because of its impressive average economic growth of 6.4...
Here’s a news clip about the “Herculean” effort to transform Sochi for the Winter Olympics – at a potentially high cost to local residents. Sochi: future Olympic town, worried local residentsUploaded by FRANCE_24
Russia’s Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin is an interesting character. Thrust into the center of the clan wars for holding the keys to the country’s massive stabilization fund, the occasionally outspoken technocrat has openly contradicte...
Oil prices continue to surge, and have reached almost $115 a barrel. Gazprom has agreed to set up a joint venture with the National Oil Corporation of Libya. The company also announced it will close a deal to buy a controlling stake in Serbia̵...
St Petersburg will open a competition later this month to select private partners for the planned $1.28 billion overhaul of Pulkovo airport. Oleg Deripaska has lost a court case brought by Czech fund PPF Investments over his insurer Ingosstrakh, a...
TODAY: Russia announces support for Georgia’s breakaway regions. Interview with Russian Foreign Minister. NGOs to face stringent new regulations. Russia and Libya deals could be worth $10bn. Putin to re-marry? Rumors persist… Russia announce...
That’s what the Financial Times is reporting following Russia’s announcement that Moscow would establish official links with the separatists regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia. I may be wrong, but I think this would be the first for...
Yesterday Bob sounded off on the election of Silvio Berlusconi as Italy’s prime minister for a third term – despite what the New York Times describes as his “shockingly meager achievements in office.” Now there’s this...
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