Despite hearing quite a few nice speeches about the Kremlin’s commitment to fighting corruption, 2009 was most definitely a boom year for graft in Russia. Earlier this month Transparency International released its Corruption Perceptions Inde...
Hermitage is sending around another press today with regard to the recent death in Russian custody of their lawyer Sergei Magnitsky. Apparently five days before his death due to untreated illness, the lawyer had filed a complaint denouncing ...
Iran began five-day, large-scale air defense war games yesterday aimed at protecting its nuclear facilities from attack. Changes in the permafrost in western Siberia are costing Russian oil companies a reported $1.9 billion every year in dam...
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin introduced a cash-for-scrap-cars scheme and mortgage support at Saturday’s United Russia congress, as he forecasted a 2009 GDP decline of 8-8.5%, ‘which would be Russia’s worst result since 1994,R...
TODAY: Medvedev issues ‘dressing down’ for United Russia at annual congress, Putin doesn’t disagree; funeral held for Sergei Magnitsky, second autopsy request denied; Litvinenko anniversary; Russia’s school for tabloid jour...
Если Вы хотите прочитать оригинал данной статьи на русском языке, нажмите сюда. A well-known Russian journalist, head of the Center for Journalism in Extreme Situations Oleg Panfilov in early November moved for permanent residency from Mosco...
This week’s lunch with the FT features Peter Aspden sitting down for some sushi and a harmless bit of obsequiousness with Evgeny Lebedev, the son of Alexander Lebedev. The conversation has some interesting points … such as his po...
I like Michele Berdy’s columns in the Moscow Times. Who knows how many times inaccurate translations have skewed our understanding of Russia in the mass media: Надувать щёки is not, as the otherwise brilliant Kremlin translators would ...
Stephen Fidler at the Wall Street Journal has an interesting piece running today about the annual winter pipeline politics (though the sensible agreement yesterday in Yalta may diminish a lot of fears). There are some interesting facts and n...
Buried down at the bottom of this blog post attacking Obama’s Russia policy (mostly just picking on Joe Biden – it is the National Journal after all), are some interesting quotes from Igor Yurgens – a key advisor to Medvedev and ...
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