Dmitry Medvedev turned Gazprom, “a Soviet-era industrial basket case that made $670 million in 1998 into one of the world’s biggest industrial concerns, with profits reaching $25 billion last year. Gazprom is far more than a mere energy prov...
Read an in-depth report on Russia’s economy from The Economist here. Russia’s central bank has announced that it is suffering “not insignificant” losses as a holder of securities in US home finance firms. Finnish utility Fortum has committed...
TODAY: Russia says that EU mission in Kosovo was “illegal”. The divide beween Russia’s rich and poor is increasing. Head of the electoral commission says coverage has been “unequal but fair”. Voters pressured to turn out on Sunday. Russia has made...
For quite a long time, I have lamented the near total lack of any discussion about policy positions toward Russia by the U.S. presidential candidates – and then, when we finally get a question posed by NBC’s Tim Russert to Senators Hil...
From an editorial by the Moscow Times: Rossia television has laid to rest any lingering doubts about whether the level of propaganda on state television has returned to record Cold War highs. Konstantin Syomin, an anchor with “Vesti Plus,...
Several stories in the US press today have focused on Dmitry Medvedev. The Wall Street Journal has compiled a series of extracts translated from Medvedev’s campaign appearance in Nizhny Novgorod, together with soundbites from past interviews and s...
It seems that strong US foreign policy rhetoric regarding Russia is not finding itself well received. A reporter at Russian newspaper Kommersant believes that Russians observing the US election debates this week would likely have been “greatly dis...
The Russia-Ukraine gas saga continues. Although 2007 gas debts have been paid, Gazprom now says it will cut off supplies next week unless the government signs documents on debt payment and future deliveries. Ukraine refuses to pay some $80 million...
Russian electricity producer TGK-13 plans to float new shares in Russia and abroad. Mining firm Norilsk Nickel has been named in a $178 million pollution suit filed by Rosprirodnadzor, Russia’s environment agency, in its largest ever claim a...
TODAY: Medvedev accusing of monopolizing airtime; inflation still a major issue; Russian MBAs increasing in popularity; Natalia Morari refused entry to Russia; billions of dollars to go into boosting Russia’s defense industry. Central Election Com...
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