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Year: 2008
Grigory Pasko: Memento Mori
On 17 November, on the day of the start of the trial of the persons accused of the murder of the famous journalist, “Novaya gazeta” observer Anna Politkovskaya, an acquaintance telephoned me and said: “Have you heard!? The trial ...
Politics, Business, or Both in Venezuela?
From today’s Financial Times about Dmitry Medvedev’s extended trip to Latin America, figuratively following in the footsteps of China’s Hu Jintao: “The Russians want to demonstrate that two can play at this game,” sai...
The Shares-for-Loans Bailout
More about what’s not being shown on Russian television about the economic crisis from contributors to the Moscow Times: One would have to dig much deeper to find other worrisome stories, like when some Russian banks refused to give out cash...
South Ossetian Ghost Towns
Tim Whewell of the New Statesman manages to get an early visit to one of the world’s newest self-proclaimed nations, South Ossetia, and finds himself in a geopolitical purgatory. It is easy to think of those people as mere playthings of Russ...
Narrative of Grievance
An editor at CNN’s AC360 blog talks with a group of Russia experts at AEI over Dmitry Medvedev’s view of Barack Obama: Andrei Kortunov of the New Eurasia Foundation says “we destroyed the old foundations of the relationship and h...
Energy Blast – Nov 20, 2008
The liberalization of power prices – ‘a key element of the electricity sector reforms that enticed investors to take on mandatory multibillion-dollar expansion programs‘ – is likely to be delayed by the government, after a ...
Today in Russian Business – Nov 20, 2008
Over $146 million is currently owed in overdue wages to Russian employees, as the financial crisis makes its way into the real economy. Inflation for 2008 has hit 12%. Yesterday’s surprise halting of the MICEX ‘scared inves...
RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – Nov 20, 2008
TODAY: United Russia congress; Georgia-Russia talks progress, Russia wants UN to monitor weapons trade; Poland seeking to allay tensions over missile defense; Bakhmina, Politkovskaya. The United Russia party is holding its congress today, giving p...
The Disappearing Oil Market
As the price of oil has just fallen again for the fourth day in a row, dipping below $54 a barrel for NYMEX crude, serious concerns are surfacing in the energy sector over financing for key production and transit projects, which could present a ma...
