Following the company’s announcement of a cut in production targets due to troublesome weather, the Telegraph takes gold miner Petropavlovsk to task on its inability to manage shareholder expectations. As its prepares for its London IP...
TODAY: New Unity day holiday marked by major far-right demonstration; UN places Russia 65th on development list; Putin ranks 4th on Forbes power ranking. Memorial to victims of Soviet repression praised by activists; Georgia arrests alleged ...
We’ve written in the past about the unfortunate dearth of political satire in Putin’s Russia, with wise-cracking puppets and acerbic cartoons pushed to the margins, leaving pathetically lame and unfunny animatronics in their place.&nbs...
Writing in the Financial Times, Charles Glover has a must-read article on the deepening viciousness of corruption in Russia, where the most dangerous thing that someone can do is go public and announce their victimhood. In particular, Glover...
From this NPR story, a glimpse into the daily machinations of Russia’s ruling party: Based in Saratov, Sergei Pochechuyev worked for United Russia as a political consultant until he broke ranks in 2008. He has written a book describing how t...
Russia’s Phosagro says it may put together a consortium with a rival bid for Canada’s Potash Corporation, after the Canadian government blocked a $39 billion hostile bid by BHP. Russia and Qatar could adopt an Opec-style market m...
According to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Russia’s failure to deliver its S-300 anti-aircraft missile systems to Tehran as promised can be blamed on the influence of Satan; he threatened to chase Russia for ‘compensation...
TODAY: Other Russia members face extremism charges; Russia rejects Japan warning over Kuril trips; Russia sees Republican Party as ‘dark force’, Clinton says START will pass; calls for Khodorkovsky acquittal; UN permits Russia’s ...
Paul J. Saunders writes about the difficulties Washington will face in convincing Georgia to go along with Russia’s ascension to the World Trade Organization. In the narrow sense, Russia needs to be a WTO member more than America needs Russi...
In his final words before the court, Mikhail Khodorkovsky stated: “I want for the court in my country to become independent, so we would not leave the traces of totalitarianism as an inheritance for our children and grandchildren. Everybody ...
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