Month: June 2010

June 10, 2010

Today in Russian Business – June 10, 2010

Vladimir Putin has told AFP that Russia ‘trusts and believes’ in the euro and will not change its share in the nation’s reserves.  Rencap has predicted Russia’s economic recovery could be jeopardized by the eurozone cr...
June 10, 2010

RA’s Daily Russian News Blast – June 10, 2010

TODAY: Putin not ‘fussing’ over 2012 election; denies image cultivation; Stalin-era mass grave found.  Duma attendance increases; man faces 2 1/2 years in prison for rally incident with policeman; officials to lose migalki?  ...
June 9, 2010

Grigory Pasko: Forgotten Baikal

Out of all the things that could pop up to drive a wedge between Kremlin elites, from foreign meddling to money to competing powers of the clans, you would have never guessed that the environment could become so troublesome an issue. At the end of...
June 9, 2010

The Pageantry of the Strategy-31 Protest Movement

A Good Treaty has posted a translation of an interesting article by Oleg Kashin recounting his visit to the “Strategy-31” opposition rally in Triumfal’naia Square on May 31 in Moscow.  The perennial question of the Kremlin&#...
June 9, 2010

Putin Gambles on the Euro?

Vladimir Putin, amateur economist, has given a big interview to AFP ahead of a two-day trip to France in which he speaks at length about Russia’s support for the European economy and its trust in the long-term value of the euro: “We tr...
June 9, 2010

Corruption Hinders Russian Rearmament

Alexander Golts has a pretty cutting op/ed in the Moscow Times today which points out how many times Russian officials have claimed different goals for rearmament, but then fell far short as the generous budgets disappeared.  It’s happe...
June 9, 2010

Energy Blast – June 9, 2010

The New York Times suggests that a security meeting between Russia, Turkey and Iran in Istanbul may pose somewhat of a conundrum to the US as it opens another UN security council debate on sanctions.  The Moscow Times reports claims that UN s...
June 9, 2010

Today in Russian Business – June 9, 2010

Bloomberg reports that President Dmitry Medvedev will set out upon his upcoming trip to the US with a ‘solid pack of documents’ to be signed, including a large number of commercial agreements.  A total of 36,000 unemployed Russian...
June 9, 2010

RA’s Daily Russian News Blast – June 9, 2010

TODAY: Russia falls in GPI index; Georgia talks held; Saakashvili fears over Mistral; France asserts commitment on sale to Russia.  Medvedev orders civil service cuts; outrage over Ekho Moskvy radio chief’s suggestions for rallies; vict...
June 8, 2010

Putin’s Democratic Makeover

Charles Glover has some interesting quotes from polittechnologist Aleksei Makarkin in this FT blog post. “Putin is very pragmatic, he has got political intuition” he said. “Putin knows he needs to re-brand himself in order to be ...