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May 8, 2012

Today in Russian Business – May 8, 2012

Newly-anointed President Putin has ordered the government to undertake a number of economic measures in order to raise capital investment to no less than 25% of GDP in 2015, from its current level of 20%, to create 25 million high productivity job...
May 8, 2012

Today in Russian Business – May 8, 2012

Newly-anointed President Putin has ordered the government to undertake a number of economic measures in order to raise capital investment to no less than 25% of GDP in 2015, from its current level of 20%, to create 25 million high productivity job...
May 8, 2012

RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – May 8, 2012

TODAY: Putin preaches unity and democracy in inauguration address; hundreds of protestors arrested in second day of Moscow protests; Navalny and Udaltsov re-arrested; ongoing opposition turbulence presents major chink in President’s armor, a...
May 8, 2012

RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – May 8, 2012

TODAY: Putin preaches unity and democracy in inauguration address; hundreds of protestors arrested in second day of Moscow protests; Navalny and Udaltsov re-arrested; ongoing opposition turbulence presents major chink in President’s armor, a...
May 7, 2012

Oiling the Power Vertical

Vladimir Putin has, according to Reuters, stormed back into action as President with a plethora of decrees urging the swift shake up of Russia’s economy.  Perhaps he too has been reading the articles of late which have highlighted how precar...
May 7, 2012

Oiling the Power Vertical

Vladimir Putin has, according to Reuters, stormed back into action as President with a plethora of decrees urging the swift shake up of Russia’s economy.  Perhaps he too has been reading the articles of late which have highlighted how precar...
May 7, 2012

Putin Returns to Scenes of Violence

The palace gleamed, the guns blasted, the applause thundered. For those of you who have not as of yet seen Putin’s pomp-ridden but somewhat peremptory inauguration ceremony this morning, you can do so here.  Yesterday of course, Moscow’...
May 7, 2012

Today in Russian Business – May 7, 2012

$890,000 is, according to RFE/RL, the cost of Vladimir Putin’s inauguration ceremony today and $510,000 the alleged price to sit next to a high-ranking official at the banquet after the ceremony.  As Putin prepares for his return, Bloomberg ...
May 7, 2012

Today in Russian Business – May 7, 2012

$890,000 is, according to RFE/RL, the cost of Vladimir Putin’s inauguration ceremony today and $510,000 the alleged price to sit next to a high-ranking official at the banquet after the ceremony.  As Putin prepares for his return, Bloomberg ...
May 7, 2012

RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – May 7, 2012

TODAY: Clashes at Moscow anti-Putin protest attended by up to 120,000; tear gas used to disperse protestors; up to 600 arrested; Navalny, Nemtsov and Udalstov among them. Independent news websites blocked; gay campaigner fined; navy chief ousted. ...