Julia Ioffe’s latest piece for Foreign Policy offers a microcosm of contemporary Russian social class tensions, corruption, elite insolence, and of courge, migalkas, the controversial private sirens given to more than 900 privileged motorist...
Julia Ioffe’s latest piece for Foreign Policy offers a microcosm of contemporary Russian social class tensions, corruption, elite insolence, and of courge, migalkas, the controversial private sirens given to more than 900 privileged motorist...
The Financial Times is running a Russia supplement tomorrow, with a number of interesting articles, including the following bit from Leyla Boulton on the climate of fear and theft survived by businesses working in Russia. I’ve noticed ...
It has been reported today that Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has set an ‘ambitious goal’ for Russia to become one of the world’s five largest economies in the next decade, planning to send the oil-based economy up into the realm...
Several reports today focus on the ongoing negotiations between Russia and China on a mammoth thirty-year energy deal: in a video from Bloomberg with Stephen O’Sullivan, managing director of equity research for Asia ex-Japan at Barclays Capi...
Several reports today focus on the ongoing negotiations between Russia and China on a mammoth thirty-year energy deal: in a video from Bloomberg with Stephen O’Sullivan, managing director of equity research for Asia ex-Japan at Barclays Capi...
According to the Economic Development Ministry, Russians paid at least $5.9 billion in ‘everyday’ situation bribes last year, almost double the level in 2001. Analysts at VTB Capital have argued that President Dmitry MedvedevR...
TODAY: Orlov acquitted in rare boon for NGO workers; Khodorkovsky whistleblower’s claims countered by authorities; Mironov enters lower house. Medvedev fires two top police officials as reform of law enforcement ramps up; St Petersburg...
A rare piece of good news just in on the Russian rights landscape. Oleg Orlov, head of the Memorial group, has, somewhat surprisingly, been acquitted in the slander case brought against him by Chechen president Ramzan Kadyrov. The accu...
A rare piece of good news just in on the Russian rights landscape. Oleg Orlov, head of the Memorial group, has, somewhat surprisingly, been acquitted in the slander case brought against him by Chechen president Ramzan Kadyrov. The accu...
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