Month: February 2009

February 3, 2009

RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – Feb 3rd, 2009

TODAY: Russia offers money to Kyrgyzstan to abandon obligations on its US military base; Tajik President cancels Moscow trip; Peskov says Putin was misunderstood; more protests on the horizon, Amnesty International demands release of opposition pr...
February 2, 2009

Power Perceptions

Egged on somewhat, perhaps, by what he views as Vladimir Putin’s use of the US as a scapegoat for Russia’s financial problems, Clifford J. Levy wrote in the New York Times over the weekend about the doubtful light cast on Putin’s...
February 2, 2009

In Web We Trust

Either the Russian public simply can’t afford to spend their rubles on printed matter these days, or people are waking up to the subjective nature of the printed word.  A new poll by the Russian Business Rating Agency suggests that more...
February 2, 2009

Grigory Pasko: Putin the Destroyer

Prime Minister of the RF Vladimir Putin in an interview with Bloomberg said: “I never had it as a goal to destroy billionaires. My goal has been for all to live according to the rules, which are called laws. These rules are being made legall...
February 2, 2009

A Warning from Chubais

From Anatoly Chubais in the Wall Street Journal today: Still, according to Mr. Chubais, Mr. Putin probably meant what he said. The latest bout of state intervention in Russia was no more planned in Moscow than in Washington or Europe, he says. The...
February 2, 2009

Video: “Kremlin, we are against you”

More news about the protests in Russia over the weekend from the World News Examiner: So bad have things become, that even with limits on speech, protests swept Russia this weekend. Moscow in the west, and Vladivostok in the east – where pro...
February 2, 2009

Lecturing on Economics

From Seeking Alpha: We’ve just got ourselves a new economic teacher: Russian Prime Minister, nee President, Vladimir Putin. In his Davos speech he called on others not to allow too much government intervention into business, not to fall into...
February 2, 2009

Energy Blast – Feb 2nd, 2009

One of three shareholders at ‘shadowy intermediary company’ RosUkrEnergo wants Russia, Ukraine and Europe to set up an equally-owned venture to guarantee gas supplies.  Sibir Energy was forced to drop plans to bail out one of its ...
February 2, 2009

Today in Russian Business – Feb 2nd, 2009

Companies are still cutting production and jobs, causing Russian manufacturing to contract at its second-fastest pace on record last month.  Anatoly Chubais, chief architect of privatization in Russia during the 1990s, says the government nee...
February 2, 2009

RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – Feb 2nd, 2009

TODAY: Thousands of protesters take to the streets all across Russia in widespread dissent; United Russia holds 30-minute pro-Kremlin rallies; Patriarch Kirill enthroned; gearing up for Russia-US meetings; Russians turn to internet for objective n...