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September 23, 2011

Energy Blast – Sept 23, 2011

At the International Arctic forum in Arkhangelsk, Icelandic President Olafur Grimsson has called developing geothermal energy projects and the Northern Sea Route with Russia a  ‘top priority’.  Vladimir Putin concurred on the importanc...
September 23, 2011

Today in Russian Business – Sept 23, 2011

The BRIC nations have firmly rebuffed suggestions they could act as a bloc to relieve Europe’s financial stresses.  Despite a Brazilian proposal to that effect, emerging economies did not debate offering direct aid to Europe, says South Afri...
September 23, 2011

Today in Russian Business – Sept 23, 2011

The BRIC nations have firmly rebuffed suggestions they could act as a bloc to relieve Europe’s financial stresses.  Despite a Brazilian proposal to that effect, emerging economies did not debate offering direct aid to Europe, says South Afri...
September 23, 2011

RA’s Daily Russian News Blast – Sept 23, 2011

TODAY: United Russia Congress begins; expectation mounts that Putin will announce his plans; Prokhorov spin doctors claim unpaid wages. Chechens in Istanbul killed on Kremlin orders?  Russia plans sea-based missile defense; defends its conduct in ...
September 22, 2011

Burnt By The Sun Sparks Oscar Battle

Nikita Mikhalov’s Burnt By The Sun won best foreign film at the 1994 Oscars, the Grand Prix at the Cannes film festival and was feted internationally for its epic portrayal of a Red Army Officer struggling through the Great Purges of the 193...
September 22, 2011

Burnt By The Sun Sparks Oscar Battle

Nikita Mikhalov’s Burnt By The Sun won best foreign film at the 1994 Oscars, the Grand Prix at the Cannes film festival and was feted internationally for its epic portrayal of a Red Army Officer struggling through the Great Purges of the 193...
September 22, 2011

Energy Blast – Sept 22, 2011

Russia has controversially decided to extend to 45 years the life of the same generation of nuclear reactors as that which exploded at Chernobyl in 1986, leaving a decades-long legacy of radioactive toxicity.  Apparently Iran has reached agreement...
September 22, 2011

Today in Russian Business – Sept 22, 2011

According to the IMF, Russia’s economy would fall into recession for one to two years if oil prices were to drop to $50 a barrel next year and remain that low.  The Fund has asserted that ‘fundamental reforms’ must take place to ensure...
September 22, 2011

Today in Russian Business – Sept 22, 2011

According to the IMF, Russia’s economy would fall into recession for one to two years if oil prices were to drop to $50 a barrel next year and remain that low.  The Fund has asserted that ‘fundamental reforms’ must take place to ensure...
September 22, 2011

RA’s Daily Russian News Blast – Sept 22, 2011

TODAY: Putin takes verbal swipe at Alexander Lebedev; the ascent of Valentina Matviyenko; Mikhail Gorbachev asserts need for free elections; how Yabloko may stand to profit from the fracture of Right Cause.  Russia on losing team in Arab Spring?  ...