Month: August 2010

August 23, 2010

Actvists Openly Criticize Putin at Rally

RFE/RL brings this report and video from Moscow’s weekend rallly and concert, organized by Khimki forest activists. Uncharacteristically, the event received permission from city officials. But the permission was revoked at the last minute. W...
August 23, 2010

Energy Blast – Aug 23, 2010

Iran has joined the world’s nuclear power generating nations after launching the Bushehr nuclear power plant with Russia’s Rosatom this weekend.  The Guardian has images.  The head of the Iran’s atomic energy organizati...
August 23, 2010

Today in Russian Business – Aug 23, 2010

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin will visit Norilsk Nickel this week amid the Vladimir Potanin / Oleg Deripaska shareholder dispute that has been ongoing at the company since June.  Reuters reports that ‘Putin […] is believed to pers...
August 23, 2010

RA’s Daily Russian News Blast – Aug 23, 2010

TODAY: Crowd gathers to listen to songs in Moscow Khimki protest, anti-Putin protest in Kaliningrad; Nemtsov detained for trying to march; forest head sacked; blogger under fire from United Russia for snubbing comment request; Moscow Metro bomber ...
August 20, 2010

Republicans Feel Cut Out of the Loop on START

Stephen Rademaker, a former Assistant Secretary of State under the Bush administration, has published a criticism of the Senate’s handling of the new START treaty with Russia in the Washington Post, which unlike the ping-pong match started b...
August 20, 2010

Viktor Bout’s Big Secret

It has long been a subject of wild speculation as to why the Russian government has lobbied to bring home the reputed arms dealer Viktor Bout, who is currently detained in Thailand and, according to a recent announcement, may in fact be extradited...
August 20, 2010

Energy Blast – Aug 20, 2010

Rosatom is emphasizing the fact that, although it led the project, over ten EU and Asia-Pacific countries have contributed to the construction of Iran’s Bushehr nuclear power plant, and says that ‘criticism of Bushehr distracts from th...
August 20, 2010

Today in Russian Business – Aug 20, 2010

The Federal Anti-Monopoly Service has banned an ad campaign by a regional construction firm that features a President Medvedev-lookalike, supposedly after it received complaints from ‘disgusted‘ people who thought the campaign was R...
August 20, 2010

RA’s Daily Russian News Blast – Aug 20, 2010

TODAY: United Russia changes tack on election strategy; Medvedev visits Armenia, wants bombers ‘destroyed’; evidence on plane crash passed to Poland; only one wildfire state of emergency remains; City Hall prohibits Khimki concert; VTs...