Economic Development Minister Elvira Nabiullina has said that Russia could enter the World Trade Organization by the end of the year, with support from the EU Trade Commissioner. The Kremlin is hoping for cooperation with the Obama administr...
TODAY: Putin likens Oleg Deripaska and other Pikalyovo factory owners to ‘cockroaches’ in open castigation of the super-rich; fears of social unrest due to unemployment becoming a reality?; Poland angered by Russian ‘rewrite̵...
On the eve of the recent visit of Vladimir Putin to Helsinki, a presentation of my film about the Nord Stream gas pipeline took place there in the parliament of Finland. The crowd wasn’t very large – maybe 30 people. However amon...
Here’s the quote of the week. Vladimir Putin usually saves the public tongue-lashings for incompetent officials during cabinet meetings, but today he went totally chavista on Oleg Deripaska: Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin public...
A new piece in the Economist sees no change in government coming for Russia for a long, long time. The main risk, the authors argue, is not bankruptcy or political crisis, but stagnation from failure to reform the economy (a similar point ma...
Russia’s richest man, Mikhail Prokhorov, likes to grip it and rip it. Joking aside, what he is saying about living between the extremes says a lot about doing business in Russia – not for the feeble. Plus you’ve got t...
One of the most subtle forms of discrimination is said to be embodied in the application of diminished expectations – which has certainly been the phenomenon toward Russia in recent years as compared to the high hopes following the collapse ...
Legal Business, a United Kingdom trade publication, has published a nice profile of Robert Amsterdam today. It is mostly behind a subscriber pay wall, but you can read the beginning of the piece here.
The Washington Post has an editorial today about Russia’s possible intentions to re-invade Georgia and finish off the despised President Miheil Saakashvili. The article doesn’t offer much new, but there is this assumption, seen h...
According to President Medvedev, the current value of Urals at $60-70 a barrel is ‘a fairly just price’. Finnish Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen has said the government will need more time to decide upon whether or not to approve t...
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