Month: April 2010

April 2, 2010

RA’s Daily Russian News Blast – April 2, 2010

TODAY: Press keep mum on whether rights activist attacker will face charges; Medvedev visits Dagestan, urges ‘dagger blow’ against terrorists; 2 killed in car bomb in the troubled region; Strasbourg fines Russia over Ingushetia disappe...
April 1, 2010

Grigory Pasko: The “Patriotism” of Hooligans

Konstantin Pereverzev, born 1979, was already declaring himself to be a true “Russian Orthodox Patriot” on his way to the police station after being arrested for striking a blow to the face of 82-year-old human rights activist Lyudmila...
April 1, 2010

Long Live Russia’s Corporate Activists

The Associated Press has published a new profile of the crusading lawyer Alexander Navalny, who has had the courage and persistence to push forward in the name of corporate governance and transparency, asking tough but simple questions such as who...
April 1, 2010

Revenge or Not Revenge?

‘Tis the question.  At least both the FSB and the Chechens appear to want to agree that the metro bombings were inspired as an act of revenge, though revenge for what exactly is less clear. From RFE/RL’s profile of Doku Umarov: In...
April 1, 2010

Medvedev the Terminator

President Dmitry Medvedev’s initial reaction to the Moscow Metro bombings was sober and circumspect, while Vladimir Putin’s suggestive promise of bloody retribution was a much bigger hit with the public.  In order to catch up with...
April 1, 2010

Energy Blast – April 1, 2010

Russian oil producer Lukoil is planning to pour $480 million of investment into Uzbek natural-gas projects to profit from higher international prices.  Prime Minister Vladimir Putin will pay visits to Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and Boli...
April 1, 2010

Today in Russian Business – April 1, 2010

In spite of this week’s bombings, Russian stocks have climbed ‘more than every major market this week‘.  Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin is urging his fellow Commonwealth of Independent States members to step up trade and mut...
April 1, 2010

RA’s Daily Russian News Blast – April 1, 2010

TODAY: Human rights veteran attacked; protesters detained in Moscow and Vladivostok; 3,000 gather to remember those killed in Monday’s Moscow attacks for which Chechen rebel leader claims responsibility; United Russia’s clean water pro...