Russia’s Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin was not at all pleased to see the country’s foreign reserves dwindle during the 2008 crisis down to some $40 billion. Now that the economy (and oil prices) have picked up, the Ministry is l...
Businessweek reports that Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov has claimed that a decrease in natural gas exports to Russia has not affected its economy, signaling perhaps a new emphasis on energy trading with China and Iran. Despite...
Today’s Financial Times offers a special report on investing in Russia: ‘[D]oes a perpetually backward country need to be western to be modern?‘ wonders Charles Clover, contemplating how outward-looking Russia actually is when it...
TODAY: Committee to Protect Journalists praises impetus of Investigative Committee; upset over Karpov FIFE defeat; Kremlin considering Kozhin for Moscow. Russia-friendly party poised to give strong performance in Latvian elections; war of wo...
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