TODAY: The fall out from the Luzhkov sacking; political post-mortem underway; a bold move by Medvedev? New mayor should be in place by end of October. Estemirova killer apparently identified; Investigative Committee to review cases of ...
Artur Chilingarov, celebrity Duma member, scientist, and Arctic explorer-at-large, has been given an exciting new mission: to resurrect a ship stranded in the ice of the Arctic Ocean since 1934. Seems like the Kremlin is eagerly recycl...
Simon Shuster of TIME Magazine gets some good quotes on the firing of Mayor Yuri Luzhkov: The gravity of this news for Russia’s political circle was perhaps best expressed by Sergei Mironov, head of a pro-Kremlin political party, who wrote a...
Earlier this morning my law firm, Amsterdam & Peroff, convened a panel event in London featuring Igor Sutyagin, the recently released scientist who had spent 11 years imprisoned in Russia under dubious charges of treason, and Grigory Pasko, th...
Bashneft and Surgutneftegaz are apparently the only two companies, out of six contenders, which have been approved to bid for the lucrative Trebs and Titov fields. It is apparently believed that the former is most likely to win the tender.&n...
Will the departure of Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov cause the capital’s real estate market to wobble? wonders the Moscow Times. This article looks at Russia’s increasing interest in Singapore with three memorandums of understanding s...
TODAY: Luzkhov ousted by Presidential decree; Mayor had apparently refused to resign. British Foreign Secretary highlights Magnitsky case; Iran threatens to sue over undelivered missiles; HIV reportedly more widespread than government acknowledges...
Russia Profile has an interesting piece looking into the efforts of real estate mogul Telman Ismailov to get back into the good graces of the Kremlin. Having seen what is happening to Mayor Yuri Luzhkov, Ismailov’s rehabilitation campa...
For several years Russia has been hedging European natural gas consumers with the threat of sending more product east to fuel the industrial growth of China, yet for all the talk, there still has not been a significant increase in the trade (there...
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