President Medvedev is on his second official visit to China for talks with Premier Wen Jiabao, which commentators suggest is an attempt to seal a deal on supplying gas to its eastern neighbor, as of 2015, although no agreement has been met on pric...
As President Medvedev visits China in an effort to improve bilateral ties, Rusal has announced signing a letter of intent to purchase a stake in a Chinese marketing unit to deliver 2 million tonnes of alloys to the far eastern market. A Chin...
TODAY: Anti-mayoral protests in Moscow; Luzhkov returns; Ryazan rally crack down; Go Russia all the rage; Investigative Committee’s growing powers; Polish warmth towards Moscow fading; Islamophobia in the capital? ‘The ground is shakin...
Robert Skidelsky goes to both Valdai and Yaroslavl, finding not only competing ideas on history, democracy, and modernization, but a “faint but unmistakable odor of a looming conflict” and “a fascinating glimpse of a crumbling di...
This is the second in a series of webcasts we are trying out here on the blog. The Domestic Appeal of the Russia “Reset” from Robert Amsterdam on Vimeo.
‘If you stand alone you can’t survive in the Arctic. Nature makes people and states to help each other’: such was, apparently, the tone of Vladimir Putin’s speech at the first Arctic Conference, where the Prime Minister dow...
A senior U.S. Chamber of Commerce official has reportedly asserted that Russia and the US will not resolve points of contention in Russia’s bid to join the WTO before the end of the year. Suleiman Kerimov is feeling the wrath of State ...
TODAY: Opposition parties struggle to register for elections; allegations that Grzylov violated income declaration; police semantics cause confusion; protester-beating policeman deemed ‘impolite’; Medvedev suggests using Miranda rule e...
What began with an arrest of a Chinese fisherman in disputed waters has escalated into the most intense diplomatic dispute between between Japan and China in recent memory. The incident has provoked severed ties, reciprocating arrests,...
How many times have we heard the Russian government say that the delivery of S-300 anti-aircraft missiles would be canceled or delayed, before then again moving ahead? We’ve lost count, and there’s not reason to think that the is...
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