TODAY: Polish anger at presidential plane crash report; Freedom House sees decline in Russia democracy; Slavic Force leader arrested; St Petersburg gives the go ahead to ultra-nationalist rally; Limonov and Nemtsov lose appeals. Norway-Russi...
Matthew Rojansky and James Collins of Carnegie describe some of the likely scenarios indicating where Alexander Lukashenko will steer the country next, but really the situation is likely to come down to balance of payments, privatization of assets...
Edward Lucas has a striking criticism of a new book on Russia’s economic revival by Daniel Treisman published in the Wall Street Journal. I haven’t yet read Treisman’s book, but judging from his recent co-authored essay in ...
It seems clear that the plane crash which killed President Lech Kaczynski in Smolensk was the fault of the Polish pilots, however Warsaw was not too pleased by the level of cooperation during the investigation. From the Wall Street Journal: ...
Gazprom CEO Alexei Miller apparently believes that the energy exporter could reach pre-financial crisis levels of gas production by the end of 2011. Australia’s devastating floods could reduce steelmaking coal supplies by over 5% this ...
President Medvedev has asserted that the new civilian nuclear pact between the US and Russia ‘should not be politicized […] but treated as business’. Why food in Russia is becoming so expensive, from the FT. Reuters h...
TODAY: Ultra-nationalist rally averted in Moscow; Nemtsov to appeal against arrest in EU Court of Human Rights; Gryzlov cautions against talks of Khodorkovsky-prompted sanctions; 2011 to be year of ecological activism? Kasparov offers bleak vision...
From James Beadle in The Moscow Times: But once again, Russia’s popularity as a target for investment of all forms will be hindered by insecure political structures. Foreign direct investment will be the biggest victim. Learning from Yukos, ...
Alexey Kovalev has an interesting article on the technology facilitating the grassroots-led anti-corruption effort growing in Russia. If Medvedev’s reformist entourage doesn’t have the chutzpah to get the job done over Yukos, Her...
Apparently Russia is considering Tehran’s invitation to visit its nuclear facilities ‘with interest’. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has insisted that sanctions have deterred Iran in its pursuit of nuclear power.&nbs...
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