TODAY: Human rights activists call for European protection, blame corruption as a setback to Russia’s development; death penalty to stay; Putin meets Chinese premier; Luzhkov’s deputy investigated for corruption; police officers disapp...
This interesting piece over at Foreign Policy argues that Barack Obama is making the same mistake as George Bush by investing in a supposedly preferential personal relationship with the president of Russia, and that the decision will come back to ...
Well this one is entertaining but not surprising. RFE/RL picks up on a a controversial argument from a blogger generating a buzz in Russia which proposes that the only way forward out of the crisis of poor governance in Russia is… well...
The Financial Times reports upon Ukraine’s hopes that Russia will lower natural gas prices in exchange for certain management rights over the pipeline used to export gas. Naftogaz Ukrainy will pay for Russian gas supplies with its own ...
Some years ago, the words IPO and Russia took on the dynamic of water against oil, as numerous Russian firms, often with the Kremlin’s guiding hand, failed to meet basic accounting standards in order to raise funds on key global markets such...
Putin has warned government officials against allowing construction costs to escalate on large infrastructure projects and has threatened to dismiss those responsible for allowing increases to occur. Deputy Regional Development Minister Serg...
TODAY: Journalist censored for critique of over-centralization; Council of Europe to assess human rights in Russia; a look at North Koreans seeking asylum. Analysis of START slow down; Russian Defense Minister in Vietnam. Smuggling-cor...
Head of the Investigative Committee of Russia, Alexander Bastrykin, recently came up with the brilliant idea of fingerprinting and DNA registering the entire population of the country, or at least that’s what is stated in his report the coll...
Fareed Zakaria does a good job of holding back on this short report of yet another Marlboro man photo shoot of Vladimir Putin doing all that tough guy stuff out in Siberia. Really? Do we still need this?
Ukraine’s newly-appointed government is in the process of updating its gas agreement with Russia, seeking lower prices in exchange for allowing Russia access to its energy infrastructure. The Russian Orthodox Church has asked the Kreml...
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