Russia’s Federal Financial Market Service (FFMS) has suggested consolidating all Russian exchanges into a single holding, and then making an IPO of its stocks. Eldorado, one of the country’s largest home-electronics retailers, is facing back...
TODAY: Aleksanyan will not be released from custody. Foreign investment in internet and mass media restricted. Moscow billionaires. Russia “sacrifices growth to curb inflation”. The Kremlin is reportedly spending “tens of millions of dollars” on v...
Nothing but Pig Snouts All Around By Grigory Pasko, journalist Let me say right from the start: that title isn’t mine. It’s not even Russian author Nikolai Gogol’s: in his «The Inspector-General», this is but a phrase by police chief in the final ...
The following it an exclusive translation from News.ru: OMON in Moscow did not let “Dissenters’ March” unfold. Politicians and human rights advocates detained Several dozen persons were detained during the course of the opposition action “Dissente...
Writing in the New Republic, Alvaro Vargas Llosa of the Independent Institute points out the irony in the fact that the only way for Dmitri Medvedev to break free of Vladimir Putin’s grip in order to implement his liberal reforms would be to...
As expected, Opec rolled over its oil-production quotas at its meeting in Vienna today. With oil futures trading at over $100 a barrel, consuming countries such as the US had lobbied the producer group to release more oil onto the market. That, th...
Germany and central Europe were “bracing themselves” for cuts in gas supplies after Gazprom halved gas supplies to Ukraine. President Dmitry Medvedev has personally asked Ukrainian leader Viktor Yushchenko to settle the country’s gas debt to Mosco...
NYMEX could ultimately be crossed off the list of international oil exchange arrangers in St. Petersburg, following a meeting convened by Prime Minister Viktor Zubkov, which focused on creating an oil exchange fully owned by Russia. The head of Ru...
TODAY: World responses to the Presidency of Dmitry Medvedev. Angela Merkel to be Medvedev’s first foreign meeting. Yabloko head on hunger strike in jail. Maxim Reznik, a Russian opposition activist and member of the Yabloko party, jailed for two m...
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