Month: April 2010

April 29, 2010

Today in Russian Business – April 29, 2010

Russia’s Digital Sky Technologies will buy the ICQ online messenger from AOL for $187.5 million.  This pilot assembly line should alleviate some of the negative PR stemming from the recent corruption probe into Hewlett-Packard’s M...
April 29, 2010

RA’s Daily Russian News Blast – April 29, 2010

TODAY: U.S. to push Russia’s WTO bid; Katyn documents; Tambov to receive Stalin bust; Chaika highlights rising crime figures, Supreme Court highlights poor judgements; editor violently attacked, new Freedom House report highlights Russi...
April 28, 2010

Medvedev: I’ll Take Care of Human Rights

This bit is good for a chuckle – but at least the president is good enough to admit that Russia has a big human rights problem.  From ITAR-TASS: Russia is ready to discuss the observance of human rights with other countries as well as w...
April 28, 2010

Katyn Files Reveal Stalin’s Responsibility for All to See

As a gesture of goodwill following the Smolensk crash which claimed the life of President Lech Kaczynski and scores of other influential Polish leaders, the Russian government decided this week to declassify some historical archives relating to th...
April 28, 2010

From the EU, With Love

Yet another remnant of Ukraine’s Orange Revolution has been picked off this week by President Viktor Yanukovych with his Moscow-friendly statement that Holodomor, the famine caused by Stalin’s policies, shouldn’t be consider...
April 28, 2010

Energy Blast – April 28, 2010

Analysts are keeping a close watch on whether or not the oil industry will be able to prevent the disastrous BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico from spreading to the shoreline, says the FT, which also reports that the company is spending over $100...
April 28, 2010

Today in Russian Business – April 28, 2010

Uralchem’s plans for an IPO this year, which would be one of London’s largest if it goes ahead, are being challenged by a former shareholder who is urging the Financial Services Authority to block the offering, apparently ove...
April 28, 2010

RA’s Daily Russian News Blast – April 28, 2010

TODAY: Medvedev orders release of Katyn documents; police wages to double; Vedomosti to sue Gryzlov; Other Russia files complaint with EU against Kremlin; increased risk of military strike in North Caucasus; leaders praise naval base, Yanukovych s...
April 27, 2010

The Realists Don’t Like Obama’s Realism with Russia

Poor Barack Obama, he just can’t make anybody happy with his reset policy toward Russia.  His opponents on the right argue that he’s selling the farm through weakness and undeserved concessions to an uncooperative, aggressive gove...