The Central Bank says it will stop widening the ruble trading corridor from today, and switch to a managed float. Meanwhile, some real estate companies and car dealers are repricing their fees in ‘conditional units’ instead of ru...
TODAY: The popular Mr Putin; Medvedev trying to sway Uzbeks; Russia could broker Afghan deal with NATO; Human Rights Watch says both sides of the Georgia-Russia war violated the law, accusations continue to fly.A new poll by the Levada Center says...
From Irina Filatova on the Guardian’s Comment is Free: Many in Russia compare Budanov’s case with that of Svetlana Bakhmina, a legal executive in the firm of the former tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky and mother of three children. She also...
Below is a translation of a blog post by Vladimir Varfolomeyev, a reporter who works at Echo Moskvy. Hat tip to Veronica Khokhlova at Global Voices for bringing it to our attention. Callous people 21 Jan, 2009 at 7:41 PM The “Live jour...
Not too difficult to see what’s going on here. From UPI: “The need to diversify routes of supplying gas from my country to EU member states has been underlined by this crisis,” Russian ambassador Vladimir Chizhov told the E...
Today Robert Amsterdam had the following opinion article published in the Washington Post. To read more about the Russia-Venezuela relationship, click here, here, and here. To read more about Eligio Cedeño, click here. Partners In Crim...
Roger Boyes writes in today’s Times of London about an increasing number of protests and riots seen in Iceland, Latvia, Bulgaria, Greece, and Russia over the last months, most of them calling for changes in government, as people respond to t...
I was surprised to read so many government voices rallying on the side of Stanislav Markelov and Anastasia Baburova in this report from the Press Association. The article says that lawmakers in the State Duma ‘voted unanimously to dema...
A document called the Golden 1,000 is drawing attention to the failings of the Kremlin’s traditional recruitment procedure. Apparently suffering from a lack of competent personnel thanks to years of good old-fashioned nepotism, the Kre...
Gas flow through Europe has now been fully restored, with German utilities now receiving complete volumes of gas, and Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has announced that neither Ukraine nor Russia will seek compensation for losses. ...
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