What is the future looking like for the Nabucco gas pipeline, designed to bypass Russia? The head of Transneft says that Russia’s new $14 billion oil pipeline to China secures Moscow’s exports against potential EU hostility. German Chancellor Ange...
Read a factfile on Russia’s raising of its wood tariffs, which will double costs for Nordic paper mills. Some mills, including Stora Enso, are pre-emptively outlining job cuts in anticipation of higher costs. President Dmitry Medvedev is blaming t...
TODAY: International law society condemns Russia’s treatment of lawyers; Federation wants Georgia’s UN case thrown out; EU and US increasingly wary of growing Russia; Lavrov says peace deals are out of sync; young art collectors being encouraged; ...
As investors worry amidst a near-global economic recession, the Russian government needs to be forthcoming about its actions in order to boost confidence in their market, imprisoned businessman Mikhail Khodorkovsky told The Moscow Times today. The...
A reader forwarded us an article from the German press, recommending that it could be interesting for translation. Below is the full text of this recent piece on the propaganda war between Georgia and Russia from the Süddeutsche Zeitung (original ...
“Saakashvili is a puppet, while Europe is dependent on us…” What Russian people think about the Georgian-Russian conflict Grigory Pasko, journalist Если Вы хотите прочитать оригинал данной статьи на русском языке, нажмите сюда. Ivan Mi...
Speaking as a guy who plows through hundreds of news stories about Russia every week, it was refreshing to see this interesting New York Times piece about Russia’s tobacco culture (a staggering 50% of Russians are smokers) and the difficulti...
Yulia Latynina has a brilliantly sarcastic column in the Moscow Times today, which highlights the incongruity of Russia’s fervent anti-Westernism combined with deep appreciation for its material goods, services, banks, and institutions. I gu...
That’s what David Ignatius of the Washington Post thinks: The Georgia strategy is premised on working jointly with European allies and on avoiding the sort of unilateral U.S. military threats that would scare them off. It is also tempered by...
The Los Angeles Times has an interesting piece about the testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee by Daniel Fried and Eric Edelman, debating the U.S. response to the Russian invasion of Georgia. While Democratic Senators are criticizin...
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