Environmentalist suggest that the effects of Russia’s wildfires could spread across the globe thanks to the phenomenon of brown clouds, amid fears that soot from the fires ‘may stoke global warming by hastening a thaw of Arctic ice....
Consumers are ‘defenseless‘ against raised prices on heat-busting commodities including cold drinks, as the price of an air conditioner quadruples, and coffins and funerals become more expensive, says RFE/RL. Meanwhile, the regio...
TODAY: Medvedev and Putin approval ratings suffer, public anger reflected in Russian press, US and Sweden issue travel warnings; plaintiff in Barkov lawsuit dies; Khimki protest broken up by police; hijacking exercise with the US completed; archit...
Here goes a counter-argument to Brian Whitmore’s Foreign Policy piece. While Whitmore sees the Russia reset policy as benefiting Georgia and other post-Soviet states, Ariel Cohen, writing in the Wall Street Journal today, warns that the rese...
It’s certainly not the first time that Putin has staged a camera-friendly stunt to bolster his man-of-action image: Earlier today Putin flew up in a fire-fighting plane and took over the controls to drop water onto a raging forest fire below...
As more than 500 fires continue to burn throughout Russia, with little success of bringing the catastrophe under control, people are beginning to increasingly blame the state, citing government cuts in fire-protection resources and poor forestry m...
The heat and thick smoke cloaking Moscow are starting to have an effect on Russia’s currency, as traders flee the city, Bloomberg reports today. The ruble fell by 0.5% against the dollar over the last week. The nation’s worst heat wave...
Fires threatening the Snezhinsk nuclear research center, which started last Friday, have been extinguished, as new fears arise over the Mayak nuclear-waste plant in Ozersk. Rosneft has paid Yukos Capital $400 million in overdue debt, after t...
RIA Novosti reports that short-term losses due to wildfires could be as much as $15 billion (or 1% of this year’s GDP), and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin estimates that Russia’s grain harvest this year could be as much as 38% smaller t...
TODAY: Moscow mortality rates double; Kremlin pledges funds for Emergency Situations Ministry; heatwave in line with climate change expectations, says UN; Khimki forest case used by police to pressure journalists; Georgia makes official complaint ...
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