The 2010 budget has passed a second reading after the Duma ‘brushed aside proposals from the opposition‘. Most of the amendments were ‘minor‘, says The Moscow Times, but the new budget has more than halved state suppo...
TODAY: EU-Russia summit ‘one of the best we’ve had’; WTO bid to happen as soon as possible; Prosecutor General investigating lawyer Magnitsky’s death; Solidarity says it has evidence against officers; Putin raises eyebrows ...
Voice of America has published an important piece on the death of Hermitage lawyer Sergei Magnitsky and the practice of medical blackmail in Russian prisons: Magnitsky developed problems with his pancreas and gall bladder as a result of what his A...
Yes, so, as always Lilia Shevtsova is basically awesome, and her latest piece in the Moscow Times makes quite a lot of sense of the games being playing within the “reset.” Meanwhile, the ruling elite have decided to discuss democratic ...
From Philip Pan’s coverage of the death of Hermitage lawyer Sergei Magnitsky: But Jamison Firestone, the head of Magnitsky’s firm and a board member of the American Chamber of Commerce in Russia, said the authorities had denied Magnits...
There is a new (?) French documentary out about Anna Politkovskaya directed by Eric Bergkraut which is getting some rave reviews. Here is the website, and below is one video (I couldn’t find the trailer).
In spite of recent measures taken to avoid more EU gas disruptions this winter, and a new Russia-EU partnership set to be discussed in detail at this week’s Stockholm summit, Slovakia’s Prime Minister can’t see Kiev being ab...
A new trade agreement between Russia and the EU could examine whether trade barriers set up in response to the global crisis are damaging economic relations. The two bodies have launched a joint patent program to strengthen Russian intellectual pr...
TODAY: Medvedev in Stockholm for EU-Russia summit; Transparency International laments Russia’s rampant bribery; protesters call for Beketov investigation and release of Limonov; tax claim against British Council thrown out; ultranationalist-...
A while back we pointed to the Twitter feed of Russia’s Amb. to NATO Dmitry Rogozin. Today it looks like he has launched a personal assault on Radoslav Sikorski, the Polish MFA (everybody is just so prickly around this Berlin Wall anni...
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