Is Russia planning to scrap the ruble? Igor Shuvalov suggests that a common currency with Belarus and Kazakhstan could be introduced instead. Finans magazine ranks Yelena Baturina, the CEO of Inteko and wife of Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhko...
TODAY: NATO optimistic on Russia’s warships; clergy department to oversee prisons; Putin accuses officials of misspending Olympic funds; Kovalyov interview; Zhukovsky protest; regional elections; Litvinenko’s father alleges persecution...
Click here to jump over to France24 to see a video clip of a panel discussion on Russia surrounding the summit between Nicolas Sarkozy and Dmitry Medvedev featuring Robert Amsterdam and others.
Writing in The Telegraph, Andrew Osborn quotes several sources who note the “sunny” and “cheerful” disposition of President Dmitry Medvedev, underscored by a lack of results (notably the fact that the lawyer for the YouTube...
A new biography of the great Polish journalist Ryszard Kapuscinski has been published, which several British media have misinterpreted as some sort of exposé of fictions in his reporting. In an interview with the author Artur Domoslawski on ...
Writing at Time Magazine, Trita Parsi argues that Iranian politics have come to represent Churchill’s view of Russia. I object: since when has Russia ceased to be an enigma-wrapper mystery and bulldogs under the carpet? Iran is t...
Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi says construction of a Russia-China oil pipeline – part of the East Siberia-Pacific pipeline – will be finished by the end of the year, and will have the capacity to pump 1.6 million barrels of crud...
Read a profile piece on Alexander Lebedev, the billionaire and entrepreneur currently in the final stages of acquiring British newspaper The Independent: ‘Is he the Kremlin’s Trojan horse or is he driven, as he says, by “civic re...
TODAY: Medvedev abolishes science and education agencies; holiday protests; Major Alexei Dymovsky released from custody; Russians favour United Russia; FSS confirms death of North Caucasus militant; Yanukovych promises to improve relations with Ru...
At the same time as the two presidential couples – the French and the Russian – were attending an exhibition in the Louvre with the pompous name «Rus’ the holy», another exhibition was opening in a private gallery not too far fro...
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