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June 25, 2012

RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – June 25, 2012

TODAY: Putin’s Middle East tour kicks off amid rising tensions on Syria; Lavro defends arms contracts; helicopter-carrying ship will make a second attempt to reach the conflict-ridden state. Orthodox Church shores up its defenses; Alexeyeva ...
June 23, 2012

Back to Blogging

Well, it has happened again.  I had become overwhelmingly occupied attending to client files, focusing on family, and an inconvenient activity known as sleep, to the point that I had not been regularly writing my own posts for this website.  Now i...
June 23, 2012

Back to Blogging

Well, it has happened again.  I had become overwhelmingly occupied attending to client files, focusing on family, and an inconvenient activity known as sleep, to the point that I had not been regularly writing my own posts for this website.  Now i...
June 22, 2012

Pussy Riot Charges Illegal

An independent group of experts, the Independent Judicial Expertise Council, has reviewed the case of Pussy Riot, together with the lyrics of the punk anthems they performed in the Orthodox Church, and come to the conclusion that their ongoing inc...
June 22, 2012

Pussy Riot Charges Illegal

An independent group of experts, the Independent Judicial Expertise Council, has reviewed the case of Pussy Riot, together with the lyrics of the punk anthems they performed in the Orthodox Church, and come to the conclusion that their ongoing inc...
June 22, 2012

Energy Blast – June 22, 2012

Russian President Vladimir Putin says the country is open to foreign investment in its energy sector, as part of a ‘policy of openness’.  He added that Russia ‘would like our companies to participate in investment projects abroad on an equal footi...
June 22, 2012

Energy Blast – June 22, 2012

Russian President Vladimir Putin says the country is open to foreign investment in its energy sector, as part of a ‘policy of openness’.  He added that Russia ‘would like our companies to participate in investment projects abroad on an equal footi...
June 22, 2012

Today in Russian Business – June 22, 2012

President Vladimir Putin’s keynote speech at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (‘Putin’s trying to make it into a Davos for Russia,’ noted one attendee) was rewarded with applause when Putin announced that Boris Titov would be appoin...
June 22, 2012

RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – June 22, 2012

TODAY: Putin warns opposition at economic forum, as activist is charged and St. Petersburg moves to ban protests in its main square; report rules that Pussy Riot incarceration is illegal; Lavrov admits that ships were carrying combat helicopters; ...
June 22, 2012

RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – June 22, 2012

TODAY: Putin warns opposition at economic forum, as activist is charged and St. Petersburg moves to ban protests in its main square; report rules that Pussy Riot incarceration is illegal; Lavrov admits that ships were carrying combat helicopters; ...