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March 9, 2012

Today in Russian Business – March 9, 2012

Bloomberg has a video interview with Uralkali CEO Vladislav Baumgertner in which he explains how increasing demand for potash in the developing markets justifies the company’s plans to increase production by 90% with $6 billion worth of inve...
March 9, 2012

Today in Russian Business – March 9, 2012

Bloomberg has a video interview with Uralkali CEO Vladislav Baumgertner in which he explains how increasing demand for potash in the developing markets justifies the company’s plans to increase production by 90% with $6 billion worth of inve...
March 8, 2012

Putin’s Prokhorov Project

If any doubt remained as to the credibility of Mikhail Prokhorov’s dedication to the notion of democracy, it may have been quashed with the announcement that Vladimir Putin will consider the billionaire and apparent advocate of political plu...
March 8, 2012

Putin’s Prokhorov Project

If any doubt remained as to the credibility of Mikhail Prokhorov’s dedication to the notion of democracy, it may have been quashed with the announcement that Vladimir Putin will consider the billionaire and apparent advocate of political plu...
March 8, 2012

Clean Votes, Yes: But Not For Putin

You may have noticed a few reports this week from election observers who said that the cleanliness of the voting procedures at their polling stations restored their faith in the election system, like this one from Alexey Kovalev.  Does this mean t...
March 8, 2012

Energy Blast – March 8, 2012

Analysts have concluded that ‘oil tsar’ Igor Sechin will remain in a strong position following any government reshuffling, after Vladimir Putin commended Sechin’s ‘professionalism and his grip, for getting the job done’.  Russian gas producer Nova...
March 8, 2012

Today in Russian Business – March 8, 2012

‘China and Russia are going to double their defense spending by 2015.’  Russia’s first bond auction since Vladimir Putin’s claim of election victory saw it selling just 8 billion roubles out of a possible 45 billion seven-year bonds, as investors ...
March 8, 2012

Today in Russian Business – March 8, 2012

‘China and Russia are going to double their defense spending by 2015.’  Russia’s first bond auction since Vladimir Putin’s claim of election victory saw it selling just 8 billion roubles out of a possible 45 billion seven-year bonds, as investors ...
March 8, 2012

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

TODAY: Women’s Day public holiday; North Caucasus voting fraud; Navalny says Pussy Riot detention is ‘cruel’; Putin dismisses opposition – again, Peskov defends police; League of Voters refuse to recognise election result; UK MPs want Magnit...
March 7, 2012

Gudkov: Govt Must Respond to Demands of Protesters

From Catherine Belton at the Financial Times: Some warn that Mr Putin’s reluctance to respond to any of the opposition’s demands – such as a thorough investigation of vote rigging claims or the removal of the head of the central election commissio...