China and India have both voiced their support for Russia joining the WTO in 2011, the Moscow Times reports. Billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov has expressed his backing for a proposal to increase the official workweek to 60 hours from 40, on the...
TODAY: Interior Ministry accuses Magnitsky of fraud one year on from lawyer’s death; Politkovskaya investigator to take on Kashin case; the decline of trial by jury. A new era of NATO-Russia cooperation with Afghanistan at core? ...
Vladimir Putin’s trip to Sofia saw him reach an agreement with Bulgarian counterpart Boyko Borissov on forming a 50-50 joint venture that will oversee the construction and running of the stretch of the South Stream pipeline running though Bu...
Economic aide Arkady Dvorkovich has said that Russia is aiming to complete negotiations to enter the World Trade Organization and become a member next year (though not if Georgia has anything to do with it, some would argue.) ‘Silicon ...
From the terrific Masha Gessen in Reuters. A large number of Russian journalists and activists have long been outside the protection of the law. These people are easy to identify. They are the subjects of pseudo-investigative exposes on state tele...
So everybody is getting all wrapped up in yesterday’s Kommersant story, which purported to quote several anonymous Kremlin officials who leaked the identity of the turncoat spy responsible for exposing the deep-cover network of spies arreste...
The current cost of Russian gas for Ukraine’s Naftogaz? $1 billion per month. ‘This is a major challenge that we must think over now,‘ says the company head. President Dmitry Medvedev wants next year’s G20...
A bill to regulate electronic payments has been approved by the government, and could pose problems for new operators due to its equity requirements, reports the Moscow Times. President Dmitry Medvedev spoke of ‘unhindered access for s...
TODAY: Reporters gather in Saratov to protest attacks; 100 police working on Kashin case, but answers are scarce; raft of attacks dominating the news; Medvedev to meet Japanese PM who denies that stalled economic agreement is related to Kuril disp...
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