Month: August 2010

August 16, 2010

Energy Blast – Aug 16, 2010

Germany’s Saxony is to spend $12.75 million sending a shipment of nuclear waste to Russia this year, ‘the only country in the world accepting uranium hexafluoride in industrial quantities.‘  ‘Russia has long played a r...
August 16, 2010

Today in Russian Business – Aug 16, 2010

An extension of the grain export ban, currently due to last until December 31, will not be decided until October, according to First Deputy Prime Minister Viktor Zubkov, who also announced that thus far, over $450 million (just under half of the a...
August 16, 2010

RA’s Daily Russian News Blast – Aug 16, 2010

TODAY: Fewer Moscow fires but other regions still suffering, pollution spreads to Nizhny Novgorod, extreme weather hits Leningrad; Ponomaryov hospitalized after arrest; Kremlin-appointed Luzhkov; Kadyrov calls for regional heads to have common tit...
August 13, 2010

Rule of Law Still Anemic in Russia

During President Dmitry Medvedev’s visit to Silicon Valley earlier this year to pitch Russia as the next hotbed of technological innovation, the industry responded with guarded interest. Well yes, sure, that sounds great, but what are you go...
August 13, 2010

‘A Professional Community of Professionals’

Here’s an entertaining look at the origin of “militsia”, the term for Russian police that Medvedev wants to change as part of his police overhaul. From Michele A. Berdy’s piece in the Moscow Times: Right now, the law enforc...
August 13, 2010

Putin’s Popularity

Reuters has a concise summary of a Levanda Center opinion poll on Russia’s leadership, which was released yesterday. Putin’s approval rating remains quite high at 59%. The catch: the survey was conducted before the disastrous wildfires...
August 13, 2010

Energy Blast – Aug 13, 2010

Leading climatologists are searching for ways to forecast incidents of extreme weather, such as the ongoing heatwave.  President Dmitry Medvedev’s goal is to lower the amount of energy spent per unit of economic output by 40% by 2020: M...
August 13, 2010

Today in Russian Business – Aug 13, 2010

The President of the dairy Russkoye Moloko, ‘established to promote the Orthodox revival of Russia‘, says that employees who have abortions or get married outside of the Orthodox church will be fired.  It’s official: Moldova...
August 13, 2010

RA’s Daily Russian News Blast – Aug 13, 2010

TODAY: Putin fails to mark 10th anniversary of Kursk submarine disaster; doctors told not to diagnose heatstroke; 35 protesters detained at anti-Luzhkov rally; Levada polls Putin’s failures; reconstruction webcams point to empty fields; spac...
August 12, 2010

Clinton Pushing START

Hillary Clinton is urging the Senate to quickly pass the New START treaty, arguing that it will make relations with Russia more stable and predictable. The CNN reports: There is nothing in the measure that will prevent the United States from moder...