Russia’s two main stock exchanges, the MICEX and the RTS, have merged today, part of a bid to draw company IPOs to Moscow instead of London. It has been confirmed that Anton Siluanov is the new Finance Minister, dampening rumours that Alexei Kudr...
TODAY: Anti-government protesters hit the streets again; Elections Commission refuses independent candidates; Medvedev calls for overhaul of system; Udaltsov in critical condition; Medvedev to lead United Russia? Putin’s approval ratings hit all-t...
Russian oil majors have shaved 1-2 percentage points off the cost of gasoline, they say, due to competition. The ministry of Yakutia is searching for investors to fund a $1 billion chemical complex that would process natural gas. The Brazilian p...
Russia joins the World Trade Organization today, bringing to an end 18 years of negotiations. WTO entry requires members to have ‘transparent and nondiscriminatory government procurements systems’, but Russia’s still need to be more transparent, ...
TODAY: Fallout from Putin’s Q&A; Alexei Kudrin to return to government? Kremlin reshuffle; Prokhorov, as president, would pardon Khodorkovsky, Limonov to run for president also; newspaper founder shot dead in North Caucasus; EU Parliament back...
TODAY: Fallout from Putin’s Q&A; Alexei Kudrin to return to government? Kremlin reshuffle; Prokhorov, as president, would pardon Khodorkovsky, Limonov to run for president also; newspaper founder shot dead in North Caucasus; EU Parliament back...
The Guardian has been patient enough to blog its way through the whole of Vladimir Putin’s four-and-half hour televised Q+A session which featured much in the way of predictable, anodyne questions on the matter of pensions, Sochi, adoptions ...
TODAY: Putin begins TV Q+A; United Russia stalwart Boris Gryzlov resigns; protest march scheduled for Dec 24, permission granted for turnout of 50,000; Kommersant journalists express anger. Russian humanitarian convoy blocked amid tensions in Kos...
TODAY: Putin begins TV Q+A; United Russia stalwart Boris Gryzlov resigns; protest march scheduled for Dec 24, permission granted for turnout of 50,000; Kommersant journalists express anger. Russian humanitarian convoy blocked amid tensions in Kos...
If anyone had any illusions about the state of media freedom in Russia, they will have been put to bed by yesterday’s ugly and unabashed intervention in the work of Kommersant publishing house. Kommersant Vlast editor-in-chief Maxim Kovalsk...
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