Of late the Kremlin has shown an untypically lackadaisical attitude towards public marches, which, in months past, would have been swept away with draconian efficiency within a matter of moments by armed police officers. It was noted that on Dece...
Russia enjoyed a budget surplus in 2011 after two years in deficit as spending was lower than planned and oil prices surpassed estimates, Bloomberg reports. According to the Federal State Statistics Service, consumer price inflation in Russia hit...
Russia enjoyed a budget surplus in 2011 after two years in deficit as spending was lower than planned and oil prices surpassed estimates, Bloomberg reports. According to the Federal State Statistics Service, consumer price inflation in Russia hit...
Reuters considers income inequality and low standards of living in Russia, factors which have, it would seem, informed the considerable disenchantment with Putin’s regime. The recent political disruption has prompted some investors, who rec...
Reuters considers income inequality and low standards of living in Russia, factors which have, it would seem, informed the considerable disenchantment with Putin’s regime. The recent political disruption has prompted some investors, who rec...
TODAY: Udaltsov leads 200 in Moscow rally; pickets planned for jailed ex-opposition member; Voina cleared for car flipping action; Prokhorov enlists media heavyweight. US disappointed on missile defense; Roscosmos hints at external interference w...
TODAY: Udaltsov leads 200 in Moscow rally; pickets planned for jailed ex-opposition member; Voina cleared for car flipping action; Prokhorov enlists media heavyweight. US disappointed on missile defense; Roscosmos hints at external interference w...
Amid the varying readings of the dissident mood currently sweeping through Russia, my attention was drawn today to a piece by Paul Starobin in the Boston Globe, who sees the current situation through the optic of the ‘family feud’ born...
Stalin was known, amongst other predominantly murderous things, as a proponent of the political use of photo doctoring. We know this from the haunting gaps in Bolshevik-era photos in which a political rival once stood. The idea of being erased fr...
Peruvian oil company PetroPeru will apparently join the Venezuelan project to produce crude in one of the world’s largest deposits, the Orinoco belt. President Hugo Chavez has reportedly told Venezuelan TV viewers that the state will pay Exxon Mo...
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