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August 1, 2011

RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – Aug 1, 2011

TODAY: Strategy 31 protesters detained in Moscow and St. Petersburg; Polish crash report says Russia partly to blame; abortion laws could get tougher; businessman Darren Keane likened to Magnitsky; Matviyenko’s secret registration blocks oppositio...
August 1, 2011

RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – Aug 1, 2011

TODAY: Strategy 31 protesters detained in Moscow and St. Petersburg; Polish crash report says Russia partly to blame; abortion laws could get tougher; businessman Darren Keane likened to Magnitsky; Matviyenko’s secret registration blocks oppositio...
July 29, 2011

Sobyanin Fails To Pave The Way For Change

When Sergei Sobyanin was named the new mayor of Moscow, he seemed to represent a change, certainly in tone, from his predecessor.  The discreet Putin ally appeared from the shadows like a bland apparatchik in stark contrast to battleaxe Yuri Luzhk...
July 29, 2011

Energy Blast – July 29, 2011

The price of oil on world commodity exchanges was reportedly falling this morning, as U.S. congressmen continue to battle out the U.S. debt issue.  South Korea’s nuclear envoy has told a group of foreign journalists that he is pessimistic ab...
July 29, 2011

Today in Russian Business – July 29, 2011

The BBC’s World Debate has gathered Oleg Deripaska and Hong Kong Treasury Secretary KC Chan, amongst others, in a program dedicated to Russia’s interest in developing its Far East and Chinese prospects.  Interpol has denied that Russia...
July 28, 2011

How To Steal a Nigerian Election

The presidential elections held this past April in Nigeria were seen as sufficiently "free and fair" by many observers, but at the local level for the gubernatorial elections, reports of fraud, violence, ballot stuffing, and intimidation were rife...
July 28, 2011

How To Steal a Nigerian Election

The presidential elections held this past April in Nigeria were seen as sufficiently "free and fair" by many observers, but at the local level for the gubernatorial elections, reports of fraud, violence, ballot stuffing, and intimidation were rife...
July 28, 2011

Trouser Injustice

All signs would suggest that it would take a regime change, if not a miracle, to see Mikhail Khodorkovsky or Platon Lebedev  granted freedom from their 13-year sentences for tax and fraud charges, so it is scarcely surprising that the flimsiest of...
July 28, 2011

Trouser Injustice

All signs would suggest that it would take a regime change, if not a miracle, to see Mikhail Khodorkovsky or Platon Lebedev  granted freedom from their 13-year sentences for tax and fraud charges, so it is scarcely surprising that the flimsiest of...