TODAY: Extent of aggression against journalists revealed; activists decry Putin’s press prize gesture; NTV attacked for censorship (again); police deny detention of child at opposition rally. The nationalist problem analyzed ahead of Friday...
The unlikely news that Vladimir Putin has offered an annual award for excellence in print journalism to Khimki forest reporter Mikhail Beketov has been criticized, entirely justifiably, as a disingenuous attempt to quell international concerns abo...
This morning reports came in of Georgian billionaire and opposition agitator Bidzina Ivanishvili lamenting that President Mikheil Saakashvili’s apparent secession on political objectives to Russia joining the WTO, is an act of political cowardice,...
Talks between China and Russia on a mammoth gas export deal, which has been in the pipeline for five years, are apparently developing well. According to Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Cheng Guoping, ‘the negotiations are in the final phase&...
The weekend’s presidential election in Kyrgyzstan resulted in the victory of the Kremlin-friendly Prime Minister, Almazbek Atambayev. Within one day of his election, the President elect has already stated that the Manas air base used by the...
In February of this year, President Medvedev decreed that Russia would not follow the long-standing practice of turning the clocks back one hour at the end of October, but would instead remain in a permanent temporal, if not meteorological, summer...
According to Reuters, Gazprom has proposed exploring for gas in Bangladesh’s onshore fields. The world’s largest gas exporter apparently also believes India, which lacks domestic energy supplies, is an ‘incredible’ gas mar...
As the court case between Roman Abramovich and Boris Berezovsky continues, the former has admitted that during the 1990s, he used business practices that were common but ‘not very ethical‘. ‘The case offered a fascinating study ...
As the court case between Roman Abramovich and Boris Berezovsky continues, the former has admitted that during the 1990s, he used business practices that were common but ‘not very ethical‘. ‘The case offered a fascinating study ...
TODAY: Strategy 31 rallies broken up, participants complain of beatings; Lavrov highlights police dispersal of Occupy Wall Street; Parnas offices subject to raid; UR member caught offering to pay for votes. NTV accused of censorship; Agata Kristi...
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