TODAY: Supreme Court annuls Lebedev arrest; Butyrka prisoner talks about his experiences; business as usual in Moscow despite harsh weather; mono-city of Revda to be closed down; START treaty speculation; Stalin, Gaidar. The presidium of Russia...
From a WSJ piece on Russia’s steep increases in unemployment as the year comes to end: Growth in joblessness could actually be the result of an improving economy, said Vladimir Tikhomirov, chief economist at Moscow-based investment bank Ural...
Looks like enrollment of Russia language majors is surging in the United States … perhaps the best thing for our friends in the field is that Russia remain adversarial toward the U.S. in order to keep up interest from students. From In...
The Financial Times has cool article about the challenges of changing time zones, including some info on Dmitry Medvedev’s proposal, which seeks to improve business and logistics of the far East. The economic advantages of convenient tempora...
Vladimir Ryzhkov’s column in the Moscow Times points to a very bad year in terms of human rights and corruption in Russia. It’s really quite a staggering list. Throughout the year, Medvedev was incapable of managing the country...
Grigory Pasko is the Russia correspondent for this blog, and a one-time political prisoner following an article published in the Japanese press about the Russian Navy illegally dumping nuclear waste in the Sea of Japan in 1993. Several years...
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon appealed for world powers to secure a legally binding climate deal next year following the failure of the Copenhagen summit. Gennady Timchenko, an acquaintance of Vladimir Putin, has received government permission ...
S&P has revised its negative outlook on Russia: ‘It’s a good sign, a Christmas present.‘ Russia and Egypt could be on the verge of signing a long-term wheat import agreement. Russia’s London ambassador, Yury...
TODAY: Communist Party asks Russia to hold the criticism on Stalin’s birthday, 30% of Russians would like a similar leader today, says VTsIOM; Moscow Mayor takes on the snow; Russia to revise its stance on Protocol 14? UN wants more Russian ...
The Public Chamber of Tomsk Oblast is proposing for broad discussion a project under the name of «Code of the Tomich» [A “Tomich” is an inhabitant of Tomsk in Russian–Trans.] You can acquaint yourself with the text of the code on...
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