A US court ruled last week that Russia should hand over Jewish manuscripts, confiscated by the Red Army in Germany during World War II, to the Chabad Lubavitch movement, a Hasidic group based in New York. But Russia is saying that the ruling contr...
May the bidding begin: the government has set a $603 million starting price for bidding on the Trebs and Titov oil fields, together with conditions tying 42% of the refining to Russia. LUKoil, in spite of its strong US presence, has res...
RusAl has filed a request with the London Court of Arbitration over its dispute with Interros regarding the companies’ Norilsk Nickel stakes – both hold 25%, but RusAl says it was given less board seats than Interros. Said the latter o...
TODAY: Moscow air improves but fires still rage; blogger suggests Putin be fined for flying without license; China pledges support; what happened to the Aerial Forest Protection Center? Over 90% of prisoners have health problems; Magnitsky police ...
On August 12, 2000 the Russian nuclear submarine APL “Kursk” sank in the Barents Sea during exercises of the Navy’s Northern Fleet. In so doing the entire crew of the submarine, consisting of 118 people, died. In traditional Russ...
The Christian Science Monitor takes a look at the dangers associated with the spread of Russia’s wildfires to areas still contaminated by the fallout from Chernobyl. The threat of radioactive smoke spreading across the region is a real one, ...
Staying true to its word to provide support for Georgia’s breakaway territories, Russia announced today it has deployed anti-aircraft missiles in Abkhazia. According to some Russian experts, the move could be a warning directed at Nato and t...
The FT beyondbrics blog takes a shot at a new proposal put forward by Russia’s economic development ministry to rebrand the country as an “international financial centre” … with a bit of a nod to the past. According to a co...
Over at the The Power Vertical blog, RFE/RL’s Robert Coalson argues that new laws alone will do little to decrease police corruption in Russia. Here’s an excerpt: There has been a lot of ink spilled in recent weeks evaluating the propo...
A ClimateWire piece published in the New York Times today speculates about the impact of Russia’s current natural disaster on the country’s future climate policies. Medvedev’s statements last week that Russia’s heatwave and...
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