Talking about corruption and bribery is generally a good thing, even if the rhetoric itself is empty and hollow. At the very least, it is becoming less convenient to lie about it. However this news about some 50 major multinational companies...
Nina Khrushcheva, who has been interviewed here on this blog, has a great new article on Project Syndicate / The Moscow Times, which casts some doubt with regard to the sudden healing power of mutual morning over the Smolensk airplane crash: Suspi...
A 170-page United Nations report on Russia’s energy sector issues a series of strong criticisms of the current energy situation, suggesting that natural resources extraction is causing long-term damage to the economy, environment, and public...
‘The Sapsan train reflects how the modernization program announced by President Dmitry Medvedev is little more than a sham.‘ A new initiative by German companies working in Russia will see the 50 largest transnational companies o...
TODAY: Russia-US adoptions freeze could continue for months; court to uphold ban on jury trials for terrorists; Uzbek President meets with Medvedev; Kyrgyzstan dealing with riots; United Russia conferences show ’empty rhetoric’, Prokho...
Author’s intro: President Dmitry Medvedev recently sent a package of amendments to the Criminal Code and the Code of Criminal Procedure to the State Duma. The amendments, as was announced, are aimed at the humanization of punishments f...
Roger Boyes writes in the Times about how the Smolensk airliner crash will open a new phase in Polish-Russian relations. I think the jury’s still out on that one, and that such expectations are much to high for the current leadership i...
Adam Michnik, editor of Gazeta Wyborzca, has published a reaction to the Russian embrace of Poland following the Smolensk crash. From the New York Review of Books: History has often separated Poles and Russians. On both sides the hearts were...
The Gas Exporting Countries Forum is meeting today to make a decision on whether or not to raise gas prices for European supplies. Russia’s Sergei Shmatko says that prices should be based on long-term contracts, against the Algerian en...
Russia’s first international debt sale since the 1998 financial crisis will see it offering 5 and 10-year dollar bonds, as it plans to borrow as much as $17.8 billion abroad this year. VimpelCom has withdrawn its lawsuit against Teleno...
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