TODAY: South Ossetia explosion as Russian troops pull out; Georgia denies involvement. Chechnya names street after Putin; Duma may pass bill to help fight on corruption; US denies it is competing with Russia for affections of former Soviet states....
“We were right to beat the crap outta them…” or The fruits of the moronization of the population Grigory Pasko, journalist Если Вы хотите прочитать оригинал данной статьи на русском языке, нажмите сюда. A couple of days ago I went to v...
From Mike Sigov at the Toledo Blade: Russia’s figurehead president, Dmitry Medvedev, blamed the United States for “setting Russia up.” The absurdity of this accusation brings to mind Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Tom Sawye...
Back in August, 2007, we were doing quite a lot of blogging about the shareholding arrangement between the large Canadian auto parts manufacturer and Oleg Deripaska’s Russian Machines – a business arrangement which generated a lot of s...
This is from Dmitry Medvedev’s joint press conference with Angela Merkel following the Petersburger Dialog: One of the complicated issues we discussed was the financial crisis. We have realised once again that the current global financial se...
Or perhaps I should say Igor Sechin has just added another job to his long list of government portfolios and extremely profitable business perks. Today it was announced that the silovik grand wizard has been nominated to the board of electricity t...
This is a very sad day for Russian democracy as one of the leading opposition parties, the Union of Right Forces, has voted to disband and form another party under the Kremlin’s control. The party’s decision was pushed by Anatoly Chuba...
There are reports in the Financial Times and Wall Street Journal about the Ukraine’s discussions with Russia on energy supply deals being hampered because of the country’s defense of Georgia’s sovereignty following the invasion i...
TNK-BP’s Russian managers have withdrawn a lawsuit against chief executive Robert Dudley that accused him of violating labor rights. Germany’s E.On agreed to swap part of its stake in Gazprom for an interest in Russia’s Yuzhno-Russkoye gas f...
Iron ore producer Metalloinvest announced that it will not hold an IPO this year, amidst news that Russia’s IPO record this year has been the worst since 2004. On Russia ‘lecturing’ the US about the financial crisis, and the perceived end of US he...
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