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November 16, 2011

RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – Nov 16, 2011

TODAY: Second anniversary of Sergei Magnitsky’s death; Nashi hopes to gather 30,000 for election forum; Phobos-Grunt analysis; Tajik row escalates; Syrian opposition offers continuity to Russia; Left Front protest; Council of Europe rejects PACE c...
November 15, 2011

Energy Blast – Nov 15, 2011

A Washington NGO is reporting that Russian scientist Vyacheslav Danilenko (‘a central character in the still-unfolding mystery that is Iran’s nuclear program’) had a role in helping Iran develop nuclear technology.  Rosneft is expected to surpass ...
November 15, 2011

Energy Blast – Nov 15, 2011

A Washington NGO is reporting that Russian scientist Vyacheslav Danilenko (‘a central character in the still-unfolding mystery that is Iran’s nuclear program’) had a role in helping Iran develop nuclear technology.  Rosneft is expected to surpass ...
November 15, 2011

Today in Russian Business – Nov 15, 2011

Gross domestic product is growing more slowly than estimated, but it is anticipated that economic expansion will accelerate this year.  RusAl’s staggering third-quarter profits will not persuade it to pay dividends; it cites strained market condit...
November 15, 2011

Today in Russian Business – Nov 15, 2011

Gross domestic product is growing more slowly than estimated, but it is anticipated that economic expansion will accelerate this year.  RusAl’s staggering third-quarter profits will not persuade it to pay dividends; it cites strained market condit...
November 14, 2011

Energy Blast – Nov 14, 2011

Russia will ‘never’ sign up to a second implementation of the Kyoto Protocol, ‘because it would not cover every country’.  Energy Minister Sergei Shmatko has announced that Oman has joined the Gas Exporting Countries Forum. An International Energy...
November 14, 2011

Today in Russian Business – Nov 14, 2011

Sberbank’s 170th birthday party took crowdsourcing as its theme, and took the opportunity to ‘flaunt’ its data center, ‘the largest of its kind in Europe’.  Former Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin has criticised defence spending proposals, saying th...
November 14, 2011

RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – Nov 14, 2011

TODAY: Medvedev and Obama discuss WTO and missile defence at APEC conference; Medvedev talks with Japanese PM; South Ossetia holds election; United Russia anti-LGBT law drafted; A Just Russia charged for election propaganda; Putin accepts accusati...
November 11, 2011

Energy Blast – Nov 11, 2011

Chinese studies from a few years ago suggest that ‘the South China Sea may hold 213 billion barrels of oil, or 80 percent of Saudi Arabia’s reserves’, and regional tensions over large-scale drilling are escalating, says Bloomberg.  Germany’s RWE s...
November 11, 2011

Today in Russian Business – Nov 11, 2011

Despite Dmitry Medvedev’s promises that they would be lifted this year, restrictions of equity listings on foreign exchanges will remain in place for Russian companies until 2013 at least, when a central securities depositary has been fully establ...