If you haven’t already heard, an anonymous source has leaked details of a ‘secret letter‘ Obama sent to President Medvedev last month, in which he offered to stop development of a controversial missile shield in Eastern Eur...
The Finance Ministry says Russia’s oil wealth funds are currently worth about $220 billion. Gazprom’s gas output dropped 16% last month year on year, due to weakened demand caused by higher prices, and Poland’s PGNiG monopo...
The Russian stock market was Europe’s best performer last month, as neighboring markets crumbled. Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin predicts that the Russian economy will begin growing again ‘when private demand revitalizes itself o...
TODAY: Obama offers to drop missile defense plans in exchange for Russia’s help on Iran; Khodorkovsky hearing begins today; regional elections ‘a small, uninteresting show’; more power struggle speculation; youths protest Georgia...
As the first preliminary hearing of the second trial of Mikhail Khodorkovsky is being held on Tuesday in Moscow, I have been fielding a number of calls from reporters seeking to understand the context and perspective of the defense. For thos...
He tripped and fell on my knife. Eight times… Grigory Pasko, journalist A few weeks ago… The editor-in-chief of the newspaper “Solnechnogorsky forum”, 72-year-old Yuri Grachev, about whom it had recently been reported...
President Medvedev had some interesting things to say to Spanish television today. In a wide-ranging interview (excerpted video here, full version here), Medvedev shares his thoughts on missile defense, energy security, and, of course, the Manas A...
From Brian Whitmore at RFE/RL: “The very fact that they transferred Khodorkovsky and Lebedev to Moscow demonstrates that there is a crisis in the power vertical,” says political analyst Stanislav Belkovsky, director of the Moscow-based...
One interesting correlative of recent Russian and American history tends to go unnoticed: both countries are plagued by woefully inadequate national infrastructure networks. But in the wake of the financial crisis, Russia seems to be shelving its ...
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