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July 7, 2011

Energy Blast – July 7, 2011

Russia and Norway have resolved their 44-year Arctic border dispute, opening up a 175,000-km-squared area thought to contain up to 6.8 billion tons of oil and gas.  Artur Chilingarov, the Russian explorer who riled Canada and others by placin...
July 7, 2011

Today in Russian Business – July 7, 2011

Russian grain exports passing through the Black Sea port of Novorossiysk will decline this year.  The government has spent $4.3 million on its 2011 harvests, battling 2.2 million hectares worth of locusts.  Seeds and sprouts from Egypt a...
July 7, 2011

RA’s Daily Russian News Blast – July 7, 2011

TODAY: Medvedev’s corruption legislation hasn’t affected his own bills; Kremlin releases terror names; rights council releases Magnitsky officials’ names; Nagorno-Karabakh. New restrictions for FSB officials; abortion statistics;...
July 6, 2011

Inside the Homophobic Mind of a Nashi Organizer

Not to spoil the recent attempts by the Nashi to re-brand itself as a an independent youth movement at this year’s infamous Seliger camp, but it sometimes seems like very few Western audiences are exposed to the actual rhetoric and conversat...
July 6, 2011

Medvedev Bemoans Persistent Rights Efforts

President Dmitry Medvedev was presented with a new report by his rights council yesterday regarding the death of Sergei Magnitsky.  The council insists that the lawyer died not due to a lack of medical care, as is now the official line, but f...
July 6, 2011

Medvedev Bemoans Persistent Rights Efforts

President Dmitry Medvedev was presented with a new report by his rights council yesterday regarding the death of Sergei Magnitsky.  The council insists that the lawyer died not due to a lack of medical care, as is now the official line, but f...
July 6, 2011

Energy Blast – July 6, 2011

‘The IEA forecasts that Russia’s oil and condensate production is set to peak at 10.57 million bpd next year and then start declining‘ – at least partly due to high taxes, which in Russia take 78% of oil profits and 56% of ...
July 6, 2011

Energy Blast – July 6, 2011

‘The IEA forecasts that Russia’s oil and condensate production is set to peak at 10.57 million bpd next year and then start declining‘ – at least partly due to high taxes, which in Russia take 78% of oil profits and 56% of ...
July 6, 2011

Today in Russian Business – July 6, 2011

Traffic along the Northern Sea Route, which runs alongside the Siberian cost, is increasing thanks to ‘a political as well as a physical thaw‘.  The Education and Science Ministry has drawn up a list of projects to rival Europe...
July 6, 2011

Today in Russian Business – July 6, 2011

Traffic along the Northern Sea Route, which runs alongside the Siberian cost, is increasing thanks to ‘a political as well as a physical thaw‘.  The Education and Science Ministry has drawn up a list of projects to rival Europe...