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July 22, 2011

Today in Russian Business – July 22, 2011

As the prognosis for Russia’s car market looks remarkably healthy, Renault is apparently considering a plan to launch vehicle production at a third site in partnership with its Japanese ally Nissan and its local affiliate Avtovaz.  A vindica...
July 22, 2011

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

TODAY: NGO sees holes in Magnitsky documentation; Voina artist placed on international wanted list; four detained over migalki protest.  Medvedev tells police to ease up on trade union protests; policeman quits after urinating video; soldier on so...
July 22, 2011

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

TODAY: NGO sees holes in Magnitsky documentation; Voina artist placed on international wanted list; four detained over migalki protest.  Medvedev tells police to ease up on trade union protests; policeman quits after urinating video; soldier on so...
July 22, 2011

Oiling the Wheels of Russia’s Budget

A recent analysis from Reuters quoted several experts who suggest that Russia’s books are not as balanced as Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin would have it.  With euro-contagion plaguing Europe and the US facing a looming debt problem, Russia ...
July 21, 2011

France Looks to Cash In on “Ski Chechnya”

Remember all those good laughs we had back when playboy/warlord Ramzan Kadyrov said he wanted to turn Chechnya into a destination ski resort?  Certainly the live fire conditions seemed like the ideal place to train Russia’s Olympic biathlon ...
July 21, 2011

Energy Blast – July 21, 2011

Prosecutors have demanded that a Moscow court sanction the arrest of a former deputy general director of the Rosatom nuclear power corporation who is suspected of embezzling $1.7 million. A senior UN Environment Program official has warned that cl...
July 21, 2011

Today in Russian Business – July 21, 2011

The new law which has ruled that beer is no longer food but is in fact alcohol will dismay consumers, but is also a major concern for Carlsberg, which depends on Russia as its single biggest market. Meanwhile new customs regulations mean that prev...
July 21, 2011

Today in Russian Business – July 21, 2011

The new law which has ruled that beer is no longer food but is in fact alcohol will dismay consumers, but is also a major concern for Carlsberg, which depends on Russia as its single biggest market. Meanwhile new customs regulations mean that prev...
July 21, 2011

RA’s Daily Russian News Blast – July 21, 2011

TODAY: 19 detained at Lubyanskaya Ploshchad protest; lobbyist says police negligent on child abuse; criminals make prison look fun. United Russia’s popularity waning; Mikhail Prokhorov steps up Right Cause campaign.  Libya’s Foreign Mi...
July 20, 2011

The Ukos Trial?

It has been noted at several points since his accession to power in January 2010 that Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich is, from a geopolitical perspective, comfortably Kremlin-oriented, and from a domestic perspective, a zealous devoue of Put...