Brian Whitmore at the Power Vertical is blogging on Medvedev’s firing of two governors in energy-rich Siberian territories. Other appointments may be on the way: So who else’s job is in jeopardy? Two Russian think tanks, the Inte...
Masha Lipman writes in the Washington Post on the recent protests staged in Irkutsk and Kaliningrad (Grigory Pasko has also covered the Lake Baikal story here). Control over mass-audience television enables the Kremlin to keep undesirable informat...
President Dmitry Medvedev says Russia’s economy needs fundamental reform if it wants to reduce greenhouse gas emissions; the current goal is to reduce emissions by 25% of 1990 levels by 2020. Shtokman Development might cancel its plans...
On the decline of Rusal’s shares following its January IPO. Efforts by the ‘Innovation Delegation‘ of officials and executives from the US to meet with Russian officials have suffered traffic delays and scheduling problems....
TODAY: Russia to query Bulgaria on missile plans; UN report on Moscow’s secret prisons; Medvedev responds to public reaction over corrupt police; Stalin billboards divide the Duma; too late for green Sochi; gnome poster removed ahead of pres...
It’s been a pretty bad couple of months in corruption for the government of Dmitry Medvedev. They beat to death the journalist Popov, fake investigations were opened against the YouTube whistleblower Dymovsky, and Jamison Firestone is ...
La Russophobe has published a translation from the NGO Memorial, detailing a botched armed attack by the Russian military which had claimed the lives of at least four civilians who had gone out walking in a valley to pick wild garlic: On February ...
Over the years on this blog we have dedicated considerable coverage to what we perceive as a war against lawyers occurring in Russia, ranging from Boris Kuznetsov, to the jailing of Svetlana Bakhmina, the medical blackmail of Vasily Aleksanyan, th...
One of the biggest stars from Russia at this year’s Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver has been the figure skater Evgeni Plushenko. Not only is Plushenko a gifted competitor and the defending gold medalist, he’s also leading the w...
The World Wildlife Fund could withdraw its support for the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics, criticizing preparation plans in a press release that accuses planners of a litany of environmental faults: ‘[it] has gone out of control, the quality of ...
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