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May 16, 2011

RA’s Daily Russian News Blast – May 16, 2011

TODAY: Medvedev challenges Putin in verbal address; Russia’s richest man to enter politics? Foreign Ministry dismisses Amnesty International rights criticisms; Khimki forest activists detained at demo. Belarus jails presidential candidate; J...
May 16, 2011

RA’s Daily Russian News Blast – May 16, 2011

TODAY: Medvedev challenges Putin in verbal address; Russia’s richest man to enter politics? Foreign Ministry dismisses Amnesty International rights criticisms; Khimki forest activists detained at demo. Belarus jails presidential candidate; J...
May 14, 2011

Grigory Pasko: The Recycling of Khodorkovsky Attack Letters

Not too long ago, the lawyer Anatoly Kucherena, State Duma deputy Vladislav Tretiak (yes, the famous hockey goalie…), the animal trainers Askold and Edgard Zapashnoy, the television presenter Tina Kandelaki, the singer Nikolai Rastorguyev, a...
May 14, 2011

Grigory Pasko: The Recycling of Khodorkovsky Attack Letters

Not too long ago, the lawyer Anatoly Kucherena, State Duma deputy Vladislav Tretiak (yes, the famous hockey goalie…), the animal trainers Askold and Edgard Zapashnoy, the television presenter Tina Kandelaki, the singer Nikolai Rastorguyev, a...
May 13, 2011

Medvedev On the Margins?

President Medvedev’s non-committal comments regarding Vladimir Putin’s All Russia People’s Front at a radio interview yesterday confirmed to some minds the evidence of a breach between the Prime Minister and the President as the ...
May 13, 2011

Medvedev On the Margins?

President Medvedev’s non-committal comments regarding Vladimir Putin’s All Russia People’s Front at a radio interview yesterday confirmed to some minds the evidence of a breach between the Prime Minister and the President as the ...
May 13, 2011

Energy Blast – May 13, 2011

The United States, Russia and other nations are set to sign an agreement on search and rescue in the Arctic, and will consider how to prevent oil spills, in what was described by Sergei Lavrov as ‘a milestone in the Arctic Council&...
May 13, 2011

Energy Blast – May 13, 2011

The United States, Russia and other nations are set to sign an agreement on search and rescue in the Arctic, and will consider how to prevent oil spills, in what was described by Sergei Lavrov as ‘a milestone in the Arctic Council&...
May 13, 2011

Today in Russian Business – May 13, 2011

Jim O’Neill, chairman of Goldman Sachs Asset Management, recommends the ‘controversial’ move of buying Russian stocks in a video interview with Bloomberg, with this ringing endorsement: ‘because they are cheap […] pro...
May 13, 2011

Today in Russian Business – May 13, 2011

Jim O’Neill, chairman of Goldman Sachs Asset Management, recommends the ‘controversial’ move of buying Russian stocks in a video interview with Bloomberg, with this ringing endorsement: ‘because they are cheap […] pro...