Barack Obama’s much-anticipated first trip to Moscow is approaching, but will the new President’s peacemaking endeavours be as effective on the Kremlin as they has been in other contexts? As Russia welcomes Iranian President Ahma...
The Russian government looks set to raise oil duty by 39% on July 1. Oil firm Lukoil has announced that VEB has bought up a stake in the company, though it has not specified when this transaction took place nor how big the stake is. &nb...
The Moscow Times analyzes the recent differences in opinion on the dollar. According to experts, the views of President Dmitry Medvedev and Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin are apparently not as contrary as they may seem. Medvedev has ag...
TODAY: Russia plays host to SCO and BRIC meetings; sidestepping protests at home, Iranian President Ahmadinejad lands in ‘welcoming’ Russia; is the US re-start set to stall?; Kremlin vetoes UN mission in Georgia; Russia holds record fo...
By way of comparison to my last post on this topic, Bloomberg, via the Moscow Times, has done its own quote-tracking exercise of Russian discussion about the dollar, surveying some analysts on how they interpret the seemingly differing stances tha...
Russia vetoed a U.N. resolution extending the presence of a U.N. peacekeeping mission in Abkhazia. At issue was the language used to describe the mission. Georgian leaders wanted it to continue to be called the “United Nations Observer Missi...
The Associated Press is carrying a story on the article published in the Kommersant Vlast weekly by Mikhail Khodorkovsky on judicial reform: “What we have today is a justice system of which two-thirds does the bidding of the government and t...
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, whose re-election to the presidency is being hotly contested in Iran, will not be traveling to Yekaterinburg to meet with Dmitry Medvedev today on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit, according ...
At least 20 Russian journalists are killed each year, says Oleg Panfilov, the director of the Center for Journalism in Extreme Situations in Moscow, but many of these deaths are the result of air crashes, traffic accidents, domestic violence and r...
The Cicero Foundation has published a new short paper entitled “Shaping Georgia’s Future After the Russian Invasion.” I have not given the document a careful read yet, but I have pulled the following idea from the conclusio...
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