Fred Weir has a very interesting take on the second trial of Mikhail Khodorkovsky published in the Christian Science Monitor: “It looks like Putin is pathologically afraid of Khodorkovsky,” says Boris Nemtsov, a former deputy prime min...
A Kremlin aide says Russia will contribute $200 million to a multibillion-dollar fund to support poor nations, but won’t sign a successor to the Kyoto Protocol to cut emissions by 25% unless other major carbon dioxide emitters also agree to ...
Bloomberg reports that Rusal’s application to have its IPO on the Hong Kong stock exchange has received conditional approval, but other reports indicate that a Hong Kong Commission wants to limit the IPO sale to institutions, preventing priv...
TODAY: Rasmussen says NATO will never attack Russia; new high-speed train links Moscow and St Petersburg; Georgia demolishes Soviet memorial; Gordon Brown welcomes investigation into Magnitsky’s death; Medvedev and Obama to discuss treaty in...
Yevgeny Kiselyov has an interesting take on Yegor Gaidar’s legacy in the Moscow Times: There has never been a case in Russian history where economic, political or social reforms have been carried out from the bottom-up. Reforms in Russia hav...
President Dmitry Medvedev flies to Copenhagen today to attend the United Nations Climate Change Conference. He says a differentiated approach to the formation of obligations on greenhouse gas emissions should be used for developed and develo...
Deutsche Bank has hired Ilya Yuzhanov, a former Russian anti-monopoly minister, as managing director for the former Soviet Union. Despite IMF warnings to curb spending, the Federal Treasury has not yet spent its budget allocation for the yea...
TODAY: EU ceremony awards Memorial with human rights prize; Medvedev granted right to send troops abroad; less siloviki in the Kremlin post-Putin; NATO visit yields a cool response from Medvedev on Afghanistan; START treaty won’t be signed t...
I am not sure what value I can add to the passing of the former PM and economic architect of the Russian Federation, Yegor Gaidar, to everything else that is being published today. I just know that I shouldn’t let it go by unmentioned....
I know that we try to put all our Venezuela news over on the other blog these days unless it has something to do with Russia, this is still some pretty dramatic news from Robert Amsterdam’s case down there, holding down the front pages of th...
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