President Medvedev may have made a rather embarrassing show of things at his damp squib of a press conference on Wednesday. Journalists present didn’t seem to feel any more optimistic about their performance. Yevgenia Albats, edi...
President Medvedev may have made a rather embarrassing show of things at his damp squib of a press conference on Wednesday. Journalists present didn’t seem to feel any more optimistic about their performance. Yevgenia Albats, edi...
‘Is a real fight against corruption not to Russia’s benefit?’ The words of Alexander Lebedev, known best as the owner of the Independent and Novaya Gazeta newspapers and the frequent victim of unwanted police raids on his N...
‘Like Rasputin, BP’s deal with Rosneft refuses to die’. Rosneft and BP will continue to cooperate, Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin has apparently told ITAR-TASS, despite the arctic deal ostensibly falling through. G...
Vladimir Putin is in Minsk today to discuss the details of a potential loan to the financially insolvent Lukaschenka regime. Alexei Kudrin is apparently keeping the state’s hopes dangling, by failing to confirm that the loan will go th...
TODAY: Medvedev’s star wanes after press conference; Nashi victim of hacker Charlie Sheen prank; rare military whistleblower speaks out; gay rights rally deemed disturbing to children. Shoot out in South Ossetia; Israeli espionag...
TODAY: Medvedev’s star wanes after press conference; Nashi victim of hacker Charlie Sheen prank; rare military whistleblower speaks out; gay rights rally deemed disturbing to children. Shoot out in South Ossetia; Israeli espionag...
One of the stranger parentheses in President Medevev’s ‘disappointing’ press conference yesterday was his sudden announcement that Sergei Mironov, the head of the Federation Council and founder of pro-Kremlin opposition party a J...
From the plethora of commentaries on the collapse of the BP-Rosneft deal, there’s an edifying piece from the Oil and the Glory which adumbrates the events leading up to the deal’s, and its ultimate failure: The details were tantalizing...
‘Those who prepared the deal should have paid closer attention to the nuances of the shareholder agreement’: President Medvedev gave a verbal knuckle rap to Igor Sechin over the failure of the BP-Rosneft deal at his press conference.&n...
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