TODAY: Russia dropping two time zones; express train infuriates locals, royalties debate infuriates veterans; US-Russia treaty still on shaky ground; China to invest in Belarus; Kremlin bans ‘Mein Kampf’, Yury Luzhkov hasn’t give...
I used to argue that Russia was one of the easiest places in the world to get thrown in prison over practically nothing – just ask Jamison Firestone or Yana Yakovleva – but Hugo Chavez appears to making Venezuela into a new contender f...
There’s a good blog post by Michael Idov over at the Daily Beast discussing the most recent case of the FSB putting together a variety of hidden camera clips in order to frame up their opponents in depraved situations – this time portr...
Grigory Perelman, Russia’s famous math genius savant and social recluse, has been in the news quite often since solving the world’s most difficult math problem, the Poincare Conjecture, as astounding feat which was called the “Sc...
As soon as you get some fruit involved, you know that Russia’s political unrest is starting to get serious. From the Financial Times on the Kaliningrad protest movement: Many Kaliningraders had trouble explaining the exact corresponden...
LUKoil has announced its withdrawal from an oil project in Iran because of US sanctions against Tehran, although apparently the company hopes to return eventually. LUKoil envisages spending as much as $8.5 billion a year on re-enforcing dome...
The World Bank has suggested that Russia’s economy will enjoy a more robust recovery than previously predicted, up to 5.5% from 3.2%, with higher wages and pensions encouraging a surge in spending. Unemployment will reportedly remain h...
TODAY: Reports says START deal made, Prague to host signing ceremony; Russian aircraft frequent visitors to British airspace. PACE monitors lambasts Kremlin approach to freedom of assembly; Putin-loyal parties in dispute. UR toning down amne...
President Medvedev is in Khanty-Mansiysk today to focus on issues of energy consumption and to launch a new line of gas turbine power stations. OGK-3 is planning to sell various assets, including a stake in the Kovytka gas field, in response...
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has unveiled new plans to support small business owners, more than doubling current federal budget spending on the sector. Billionaire Viktor Vekselberg has been appointed chairman of a new coordination council ...
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