An article in the Washington Post reports that the slowdown in Moscow’s construction boom due to the financial crisis could begin to create some serious political problems. Polonsky’s move, suspending more than 80 percent of his compan...
For those of us wondering how the financial crisis might impact the clan wars in Russia, today we see that the campaign against the financial liberals (Alexei Kudrin et al.) continues unabated as the former Deputy Minister of Economy Sergei Storch...
The 8th Circle is featuring a thoughtful personal essay by Annika M. Hinze, a PhD candidate at the University of Illinois at Chicago, who shares her experiences with how Germany’s opinions of the United States have changed over the years ...
‘Russia is seizing on record oil and natural gas prices to market its nuclear reactors abroad and plans to gain as much as 20% of the global market.’ The Energy Ministry expects Russian gas exports to Europe to rise by almost 38% by 2015, although...
Russia’s MICEX last week saw its biggest drop since 1999, falling 19.1%. Heavily hit by the crisis is real estate construction, ‘one of the fastest-growing segments of the economy over the past few years but also one of the most heavily dependent ...
TODAY: Switzerland to represent Russia in Georgia? NATO wants to draw up defense plan for Russia’s neighbours. Storchak sentenced; political and cultural figures call for Politkovskaya justice. Russia strengthening ties with Belarus; Israel concer...
The Moscow Times is running a piece tonight about critical statements made by the Council of Europe’s Committee for the Prevention of Torture regarding Russia’s treatment of prisoners. The former Yukos general counsel Vasily Alexanyan,...
This bit comes from Jeff Stein at SpyTalk … Robert Baer is the type to take seriously. Depressed by the market news? Try this for a quick pick-me-up: “An emerging alliance between Iran and Russia will lead to a stranglehold over Gulf a...
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 by his pen name Boris Akunin. Each day this week we ...
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