The Economic Development Ministry has a plan to reform Russia’s state corporations, which have both commercial and regulatory functions, and are set to become extinct in this current form by 2015. The ‘Innovation Delegation‘...
TODAY: Kasparov on Russia’s lack of free speech; survey reveals that an increasing fear of hazing is putting Russians off the military; police reforms; Russia and US to speak on START treaty; Moscow falling out with Kyrgyz government over lo...
A few stunning quotes from Konstantin V. Remchukov in Ellen Barry’s piece in the New York Times about the Sergei Mironov episode: But, he added, the political self-interest of insiders like Mr. Mironov carries its own subtle threat to the sy...
Bulgaria’s finance minister Simeon Dyankov says he will not authorize a €2.0 billion state-guaranteed loan from Russia’s state nuclear corporation Rosatom towards the financing of constructing the Belene nuclear power plant. R...
TODAY: Mironov’s dissent won him fan mail; Clinton wants Russia to work with NATO; new opposition party launched in Moscow; police accused of using slave labor; Abramovich to fine ill-behaved players; Medvedev calls for new weapons; Deputy P...
Jesse Heath blogs over at OpenDemocracy about Ikea’s recent bribery experience, and how President Dmitry Medvedev’s anti-corruption program only seems to hit the smallest (and poorest) practitioners of graft. Going after Igor Sec...
Robert Amsterdam is currently in Nairobi, Kenya, where he has just finished Day 1 of an administrative trial regarding the alleged wrongful treatment of a United Nations employee who had worked for the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitar...
Energy Minister Sergei Shmatko says Russia may seek to specify exemptions on East Siberian oil exports depending on fields, while keeping the tax break as a ‘long-term measure‘ to stimulate investments. Shmatko also commented tha...
‘[L]et me explain why the innovation economy and the creation of creative reservations for scientists are completely beside the point,‘ says Georgy Satarov. Will the global market be interested in the estimated $50 billion that will be...
TODAY: Putin calls for evolution, not revolution; 4,000 protesters gather in Arkhangelsk; activist jailed for supporting YouTube policeman; Lavrov wants to revive the OSCE; Russia against Iran sanctions; illegal gambling and corruption; shooting r...
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