Following meetings with President Evo Morales, President Dmitry Medvedev announced that Gazprom is in talks to build a system of gas pipelines in Bolivia in work that could stretch through to 2030. Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin says Russ...
Russian banks and companies may have earned as much as $25 billion using state bailout funds to bet against the ruble during its decline. Industrial output fell dramatically by a fifth last month, including an 80% drop in car production, and...
TODAY: Medvedev fires four governors in one day, fears of social unrest are suspected; Medvedev signs declaration of shared interests with Bolivia, promises helicopters; BBC Russian Service to stop making features; no change to Iran policies. Pros...
Some readers have been writing me regarding confusing media reports on the latest events in the Mikhail Khodorkovsky case. What I can tell you is that there is some inaccurate information circulating right now, and that we are anticipating a...
Some 1500 Ukrainian communists demonstrated against the pro-Western policies of President Viktor Yushchenko – including his desire to join NATO – in the Russian-speaking, Eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk today. Russian media reported ...
A new poll indicates that over half of Ukrainians approve of a gas deal struck with Russia last month, ending the two-week crisis that cut gas supplies in much of Europe. But the lasting consequences of the crisis are still hard to judge, especial...
What, exactly, is Russia’s stance on assisting America on the Afghan front of its war on terror? Today, The L.A. Times explores the conundrum of Russian benevolence, a mystery wrapped inside an enigma wrapped inside a Soviet-era presidential...
As the newspaper «Izvestiya» recently reported, with a reference to its «own investigation», new, sensational details have been uncovered about the death of the lawyer Stanislav Markelov and the journalist Anastasia Baburova. In the opinion of the...
From the Associated Press: Russia’s super-rich are also super-losers in the financial crisis, according to the business magazine Finans, which said Monday the top 10 wealthiest Russians lost about two-thirds of their fortunes over the past y...
The Moscow Times is reporting that executives from oil major ExxonMobil are beginning to complain about numerous delays caused by the Russian government over the development of Sakhalin-1. In the past we’ve speculated about who the Kre...
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