According to Bloomberg, Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin has said that the budget deficit may reach 6.8% of GDP next year, 4% in 2011, and 3% in 2012. The Duma has recommended the ousting of banking lobbyist Anatoly Aksakov, whose comments ear...
TODAY: Drug use nightmare for Russia; Medvedev calls for US support. START talks to restart; tanks for Chavez. Possible loan to Ukraine whilst relations remain chilly. Black September anniversary; Scott Anderson interview. ...
I very much enjoyed this book review by Gerard DeGroot published in Sunday’s Washington Post on Michael Meyer’s new book on the fall of the Berlin Wall. It never fails to impress me how much our ideas about this recent period in ...
Roland Oliphant at Russia Profile has tracked down Chris Anderson to talk about the controversial GQ censorship. I am here in Brussels with Karinna Moskalenko, whom will probably have some commentary for me to publish tomorrow. Anderson desc...
It’s September again, and that means the children are heading off to school, and the birds – heading south. And, as tradition goes, Comandante Chávez has embarked on a world tour. This time, the Lt. Col. – the leader of the Boliv...
Some weeks ago, I had noticed a new separation of tone and policy toward Ukraine between Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev, with the former closing deals and renegotiating contracts, while the latter becoming more antagonistic and confrontational...
So why don’t I have more interest in digging around the ghost ship story? It has all the hallmarks of the kinds of stories we like to cover around here – with siloviki, arms, corruption, and cover-ups – but untangling all t...
Bloomberg reports that Russia is surpassing Saudi Arabia as the world’s largest oil exporter, as Sechin, Rosneft, and co. are immensely enjoying the price advantage afforded to them by the oil cartel’s production cuts this year. ...
Reuters examines oil prices: with an OPEC meeting imminent, crude prices have stabilized, as analysts expect to see the group agree to maintain its ‘official output target stable around $70’. Russia is surpassing Saudi Arabia in ...
The Chief Financial Officer of VTB, Nikolai Tsekhomsky, has resigned. He will be replaced by Herbert Moos. Microsoft claims that the Federal anti-monopoly service’s probe into its activities, which has now closed, found no breach of an...
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