Below is another exclusive translation from the Russian news outlet RBK Daily, a pro-government source that sometimes serves as an unintentionally illuminating guide to Kremlin thinking. This piece of news, which has also been hit by the Jou...
It’s becoming clear that the Russian government is getting very, very paranoid about the financial crisis, and, as usual, their first target of harassment is the media. Reporters and editors have been given strict instructions from the...
Yesterday Dmitry Medvedev ordered his old company Gazprom to enforce payment of a gas debt of $2.4 billion from the Ukraine, while Alexei Miller slipped in the announcement that Kiev would have to pay more than $400 per thousand cubic metres for g...
We’re digging into this new 2025 report about the emergence of the multi-polar world, but for now, we have this from Forbes: The report says the warming earth will extend Russia and Canada’s growing season and ease their access to nort...
The price of oil has fallen below $50 for the first time since May 2005. Does this herald a complete economic collapse for Russia? In what sounds like old news, Dmitry Medvedev is demanding that Ukraine pay a $2.4 billion natural gas d...
Anxious to dispel fears of a complete economic collapse, during his United Russia speech yesterday Vladimir Putin vowed to protect Russia’s economy and promised a 4% profit tax cut, a measure that would amount to a state loss of around $14.6...
TODAY: Politkovskaya defense will insist on open trial; Duma approves presidential term bill; Medvedev pledges cash to APEC, demands summit play stronger role in security; National Intelligence Council evaluates Russia’s global position; Rus...
Fresh from the Washington Post: The judge, Yevgeny Zubov, had ordered the trial closed a day earlier, saying members of the jury had refused to participate if reporters were allowed in the courtroom. But a man who identified himself as one of the ...
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