Sick Attachments
Vladimir Ryzhkov makes a rather convincing point about President Medvedev’s efforts to prevent the “falsification” of history – that the best way to do this would indeed be to fully open up the Soviet archives. Sure, ...
Month: June 2009
Energy Blast – June 9, 2009
Japan and Russia are set to publish 2020 goals for greenhouse gas emissions, to help push the UN towards talks on a new climate treaty. Gazprom is reportedly seeking $10.5 billion in loans from state owned banks, as a way of ‘insuring&...
Today in Russian Business – June 9, 2009
President Medvedev has said that bankruptcy laws need to be changed to maximize the possibilities of ‘revamping an enterprise‘. Apparently Russian bailiffs are on the point of selling Telenor’s stake in Vimpelcom to cover t...
RA’s Daily Russian News Blast – June 9, 2009
TODAY: Military spending increased; Central Asia open to US influence?; Oleg Deripaska to pay out more for wage arrears; Ukraine denies entry to Russian lawmaker; rehabilitation of RomanovsA report on global military spending has shown that Russia...
Devouring Deripaska
Bret Stephens has a new one in the Wall Street Journal, teeing off on Vladimir Putin for his surprisingly public betrayal of Oleg Deripaska, scapegoating him as a “cockroach” whose inordinate greed costs the jobs of so many Russian wor...
These Grim Baltic Shores . . .
Ariel Cohen has a new piece in the Washington Times, which has some very interesting material on Russia’s growing diplomatic overtures to Mongolia to seal up uranium supplies, as well as some info on a letter sent by President Barack Obama t...
The Gas Mobster Trial
As Russia’s prosecutorial bulldozer plods its way through the second trial of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, another trial is getting underway across town, which oddly makes the former seem relatively open, at least by Russian standards. Some o...
Alexei Kudrin, voice of reason
This is another example why, at least in fiscal terms, Kudrin is more credible than other members of the Russian government: “I don’t think any new unions of currencies will appear any time soon,” Kudrin said in a panel discussio...
Weafer: Kremlin Gunning for Norilsk
Although the St. Petersburg Economic Forum was a little soured this year by the doldrums of the crisis and the humbling of global capitalism, the Russian government still closed the show with a bang with President Dmitry Medvedev promising a rapid...
No More Mosques in Moscow
Today Paul Goble is blogging about the Russian strategy to discourage Islamic extremism from flourishing in its cities – which also appears to include a ban on the establishment of any new mosques. The result of this idea, Goble notes,...