Reuters examines the pressure on car factory workers as the industry suffers and pay is slashed; the possibility of mass discontent is a ‘real risk’. Vladimir Putin has reportedly announced that ‘Canadian-Austrian company M...
TODAY: Victory Day parade and a stern warning from Russia; Putin suggests financial crisis will determine who is to run for President; NATO games prove a spanner in the works of US-Russia restart; ‘sorry’ not good enough for ex-Standar...
The following is a press release from Marieluise Beck, German Member of Parliament: On the first anniversary of Medvedev’s ascension to the post of Russian President, Marieluise Beck, MP, declares: Russia’s President Medvedev began his...
Russia has made some brash moves in the past couple weeks. They chucked out two Canadian diplomats, broke the ceasefire agreement in Georgia by advancing their troops to the borders of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, and even had one Duma member...
Don’t dispute any details of the official version of the Great Patriotic War in Russia – or else. The idea had never occurred to me personally, but I have noticed that the quickening tempo of ultra-nationalism in many countries o...
It must be difficult for Ukraine or any other countries of Eastern Europe to summon must trust or optimism in the European Union after so many years of neglect. In many respects, citizens in these countries legitimately feel as though Paris,...
Shady dealings in the east: a firm run by Ukrainian businessman Dmitry Firtash has said it is struggling to regain control of Emfesz, a large Hungarian gas distributor, after it appeared that its interest in the company had been ‘fraudulentl...
The stock market has reached a seven-month high, amid optimistic economic predictions and rising oil prices. The Russian banking system can apparently remain stable as long as there is less than 20% foreign debt. A ‘stress test’ ...
On May 7th, 2008 – one year ago today – Dmitry Medvedev assumed the office of the Presidency of Russian Federation. Luke Harding at the Guardian reviews his first year in office, stopping by the second trial of Mikhail Khodorkovs...
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