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July 20, 2011

Nude Model Army

I know we have already mentioned Putin’s Army, the viral video phenomenon in which young women pledge their allegiance to the Prime Minister with displays of bare flesh, but since the story appears to have legs (if you’ll forgive the p...
July 20, 2011

Today in Russian Business – July 20, 2011

President Medvedev’s talks in Hanover with Chancellor Angela Merkel have heralded strengthened trade ties, with the former suggesting that ‘this year we will most likely reach a record post-crisis turnover between our economies’....
July 20, 2011

Today in Russian Business – July 20, 2011

President Medvedev’s talks in Hanover with Chancellor Angela Merkel have heralded strengthened trade ties, with the former suggesting that ‘this year we will most likely reach a record post-crisis turnover between our economies’....
July 20, 2011

RA’s Daily Russian News Blast – July 20, 2011

TODAY: Medvedev lambasts Quadriga Prize organizers over Putin volte-face; hints at return to presidency? Journalists rally in Moscow in solidarity with photojournalists accused of espionage; police salaries to triple.  Medvedev warns against parti...
July 20, 2011

RA’s Daily Russian News Blast – July 20, 2011

TODAY: Medvedev lambasts Quadriga Prize organizers over Putin volte-face; hints at return to presidency? Journalists rally in Moscow in solidarity with photojournalists accused of espionage; police salaries to triple.  Medvedev warns against parti...
July 19, 2011

Tony Hayward’s Russian Horizons

It has been reported today that ex-BP CEO Tony Hayward, at the helm of new investment vehicle Vallares, is eyeing up stakes in Sistema-owned oil producers Russneft and Bashneft, in what one reporter has called ‘a blockbuster bid’. Russ...
July 19, 2011

Merkel And Medvedev On Quadriga

Germany’s Angela Merkel and President Dmitry Medvedev met in Hanover today to discuss strengthening trade ties and energy cooperation.  Since Germany decided to phase out nuclear energy by 2022, Russia has looked happily poised to fill the g...
July 19, 2011

Today in Russian Business – July 19, 2011

Automaker Fiat apparently hopes to build a plant in St. Petersburg after plans with GAZ Group to assemble cars in Nizhny Novgorod failed come to fruition.  Good news for General Motors Uzbekistan, which has witnessed a major increase in sales in R...
July 18, 2011

Stern: Germany as a Role Model for Russia, not vice versa

Germany must not make the mistake of accepting the Kremlin’s narrative for the world to remain endlessly patient for its “reform from within,” “modernisation,” and the embryonic growth of democratic society through the creation of hollow state-app...
July 18, 2011

Stern: Germany as a Role Model for Russia, not vice versa

Germany must not make the mistake of accepting the Kremlin’s narrative for the world to remain endlessly patient for its “reform from within,” “modernisation,” and the embryonic growth of democratic society through the creation of hollow state-app...