Video: Interview with Dmitry Medvedev
Year: 2008
Energy Blast, March 25, 2008
Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin says Russia may cut its extraction tax by $4.2 billion a year to help companies boost output. The Turkish Energy Minister officially announced the tender for construction of the country’s first nuclear power plant, a...
Today in Russian Business
Tax authorities have opened a tax-fraud case against a subsidiary of the Ostankino Meat Processing Plant, which could give them ammunition to convict hundreds of companies still believed to be using off-the-book payment schemes as a method of tax ...
RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – March 25, 2008
TODAY: Medvedev warns against Nato expansion; his campaign workers are “strongly allied with Putin”; Gorbachev says US missile defense is aimed against Russia. Russian polar bears to be protected. National Bolshevik activists sentenced. In an inte...
Our Deep Sleep about Russia
Edward Lucas is interviewed by Charlie Gillis of Maclean’s: Q: You do, however, compare the West’s view of Russia today to the one we held in the 1930s. You also draw a parallel to Neville Chamberlain’s appeasement of Nazi German...
Grigory Pasko: “Mopping Up” before Inauguration
“Mopping up” the country before Medvedev’s inauguration? By Grigory Pasko, journalist Forcible eviction We have recently reported here on the blog about the search conducted by the local police of a human rights center in Chita. In that same artic...
De Facto Acquiescence
Jackson Diehl has an interesting op/ed today on Georgia: “By refusing us, [NATO] will be sending a signal to Russia of, ‘Go and get them. We are not going to mind too much,’ ” Saakashvili said. “Russia will be embolde...
Joe Biden: After Putin
U.S. Sen. Joe Biden (D-Del) has a column on Russia in today’s Wall Street Journal: In six weeks, Dmitry Medvedev will take over Russia’s presidency. His ascension comes at a critical moment. Relations between the United States and Russ...
Energy Blast, March 24, 2008
OMV, Austria’s leading oil and gas company, is “battling” Gazprom for control of Europe’s energy supply. “You have to deal with Gazprom and it is not a small company. What we can do is grow, expand and add value. What is the alternative? Bei...
Today in Russian Business
Russia is expected to spend 4.8% of its GDP per year on a program to develop its transportation system in 2010-2015. New statistics from the Central Bank of Russia show that in January, Russia’s 30 biggest banks granted more corporate loans than t...