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June 8, 2011

RA’s Daily Russian News Blast – June 8, 2011

TODAY: Police on hunt for rights worker attacker; Khodorkovsky seeks parole again; freedom for fines for economic criminals; NTV broadcasts program made by Magnitsky supporters.  Bomb in Siberia; Georgia-Russia tensions mount; Russia-NATO in ...
June 7, 2011

Airport IPO Fails To Take Off

Joe Nocera of the New York Times has followed up last week’s op-ed on how the Khodorkovsky trial typifies legal nihilism in Russia, with an equally damning piece on the collapsed IPO of Moscow’s privately owned Domodedovo airport, whic...
June 7, 2011

Airport IPO Fails To Take Off

Joe Nocera of the New York Times has followed up last week’s op-ed on how the Khodorkovsky trial typifies legal nihilism in Russia, with an equally damning piece on the collapsed IPO of Moscow’s privately owned Domodedovo airport, whic...
June 7, 2011

Energy Blast – June 7, 2011

BP is, this report claims, preparing to sell half of its 50% stake in Russia’s third-largest oil producer TNK-BP to state-controlled Rosneft.  Russia has inaugurated a $1.1 billion gas pipeline to supply facilities of the 2014 Winter Ol...
June 7, 2011

Energy Blast – June 7, 2011

BP is, this report claims, preparing to sell half of its 50% stake in Russia’s third-largest oil producer TNK-BP to state-controlled Rosneft.  Russia has inaugurated a $1.1 billion gas pipeline to supply facilities of the 2014 Winter Ol...
June 7, 2011

Today in Russian Business – June 7, 2011

Journalists under fire: the publisher of Izvestia, once known as Russia’s New York Times, has suggested that two-thirds of the newspaper’s staff might be laid off as he attempts to rebrand the pro-Putin publication.  Does the fact...
June 7, 2011

Today in Russian Business – June 7, 2011

Journalists under fire: the publisher of Izvestia, once known as Russia’s New York Times, has suggested that two-thirds of the newspaper’s staff might be laid off as he attempts to rebrand the pro-Putin publication.  Does the fact...
June 7, 2011

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

TODAY: Rights worker beaten outside home; the increasing difficulty of protesting in Moscow; Luzkhov mulls return, but not to ruling party; Khodorkovsky denied parole. Communist and Just Russia parties take a leaf out of United Russia’s book...
June 7, 2011

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

TODAY: Rights worker beaten outside home; the increasing difficulty of protesting in Moscow; Luzkhov mulls return, but not to ruling party; Khodorkovsky denied parole. Communist and Just Russia parties take a leaf out of United Russia’s book...
June 6, 2011

Unfriendly Fire

Russia’s armed forces scarcely receive good publicity, and whilst their lack of structure, insufficient funding and superannuated facilities receive fairly constant criticism, these are certainly not the most worrying flaws of the services.&...