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May 17, 2011

Today in Russian Business – May 17, 2011

Russia’s economy has reportedly underperformed in the first quarter, with GDP rising by 4.1% from a year earlier after increasing 4.5% in the previous three months.  The reasons for the sluggish pace apparently include the sta...
May 17, 2011

RA’s Daily Russian News Blast – May 17, 2011

TODAY: Opposition festival of resistance to take place today; will Mikhail Prokhorov make a difference to the Right Cause? Russia criticizes Minsk’s draconian treatment of opposition; Sochi posters cause a stir. Khodorkovsky’s prison a...
May 17, 2011

RA’s Daily Russian News Blast – May 17, 2011

TODAY: Opposition festival of resistance to take place today; will Mikhail Prokhorov make a difference to the Right Cause? Russia criticizes Minsk’s draconian treatment of opposition; Sochi posters cause a stir. Khodorkovsky’s prison a...
May 16, 2011

Grigory Pasko: The Dancing Ramzan

Out of all the regimes of the post-Soviet Republics, nobody seems to have made off with more money and power than Ramzan Kadyrov, the self-appointed czar of Chechnya. He’s feeling so happily secure that back in March he even bought himself t...
May 16, 2011

Grigory Pasko: The Dancing Ramzan

Out of all the regimes of the post-Soviet Republics, nobody seems to have made off with more money and power than Ramzan Kadyrov, the self-appointed czar of Chechnya. He’s feeling so happily secure that back in March he even bought himself t...
May 16, 2011

Russian Fears For Fate of Afghanistan

As the US gears up for withdrawal of its its troops from Afghanistan, which will begin in July, RFE/RL quotes Frants Klintsevich, who served as a colonel during the Soviet war in Afghanistan in the 1980s and now heads up Russia’s Union of Af...
May 16, 2011

Prokhorov Ready for Right Cause

Intriguing news has been confirmed this morning: multi billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov is interested in becoming the leader of the Right Cause party, the political organization which, in November 2010, called for a second term for President Medvedev...
May 16, 2011

Prokhorov Ready for Right Cause

Intriguing news has been confirmed this morning: multi billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov is interested in becoming the leader of the Right Cause party, the political organization which, in November 2010, called for a second term for President Medvedev...
May 16, 2011

Energy Blast – May 16, 2011

BP reportedly remains ‘optimistic’ about agreeing on a share swap with Rosneft as the companies reach the May 16 deadline.  Apparently the British giant is back in last-minute talks to buy out the Russian partners in its...
May 16, 2011

Today in Russian Business – May 16, 2011

Ailing British bookstore chain Waterstone’s could receive a Russian rescue; according to the Financial Times, tycoon Alexander Mamut has offered $70 million in cash to buy the bookseller from indebted entertainment retailer HMV Gro...