I’ve exchanged comments with Andy over at the always excellent Siberian Light about the possible loan of more than $5.4 billion to bail out its rapidly failing banking sector. The question on everyone’s mind is whether or not such a la...
LUKoil, Rosneft, Gazprom and TNK-BP have asked the government to lend state money on market terms to help them expand their businesses abroad. Gazprom says it expects OPEC members to prevent another ‘substantial’ drop in the oil price. Lithuania m...
The west should react ‘cautiously but positively’ to the Kremlin’s offer to help Iceland deal with the financial crisis. Iceland denies that it could allow a Russian navy base on its land as collateral for the support. The MICEX has only see...
TODAY: Medvedev on presidential podcast, will push for new EU security treaty; troops to leave South Ossetia as planned; crowds mark Politkovskaya’s death; Olmert given no promises on arms sales; Syria and Russia strengthening military ties; Putin...
Michael McFaul, who serves as Sen. Barack Obama’s main Russia policy adviser, is quoted by Bloomberg tonight talking about his positions on engagement with Moscow, WTO ascension, and the missile shield issue. “Obviously, in contrast to...
One of the biggest problems with the United States becoming a debtor nation instead of a creditor is that we really lose any ability to help out our valued friends in times of trouble. As such, the banking crisis in Iceland has forced the governme...
We’ve done a little bit of blogging from time to time about Vladimir Putin’s interest in the martial art of Judo, and today, with the release his DVD to celebrate his 56th birthday, the media is scrambling to interpret what they can gl...
Whoever said that ruling Russia with an iron fist was all fun and games never had to consider these kinds of enormous inconveniences: Authorities in the Chechnya region, now largely calm after Putin sent in troops to crush a separatist rebellion i...
The Russian version of Esquire magazine has published a very interesting and extensive conversation between Mikhail Khodorkovsky and the writer Grigory Chkhartishvili – who is better known for his extremely popular fiction writing under the ...
Open, vivid, brave… This is how I’ll always remember Anna Grigory Pasko, journalist Если Вы хотите прочитать оригинал данной статьи на русском языке, нажмите сюда. There was a short period in my journalistic life when I worked at Novaya Gazeta as ...
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