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April 8, 2011

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

TODAY: Yurgens backs Medvedev; law boosts opposition representation; Medvedev calls for LiveJournal attack investigation; Putin to receive debate questions in advance; the history of Russo-Polish relations; literature, racism, tiny gold ships. Kre...
April 8, 2011

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

TODAY: Yurgens backs Medvedev; law boosts opposition representation; Medvedev calls for LiveJournal attack investigation; Putin to receive debate questions in advance; the history of Russo-Polish relations; literature, racism, tiny gold ships. Kre...
April 7, 2011

Artists’ Antitstate Antics Anger Authorities

RFE/RL today considers the question of why artists from the Voina collective seem to have received harsher treatment than their protesting associates in St Petersburg last week – three of them receiving charges, and one of them – Oleg ...
April 7, 2011

Energy Blast – April 7, 2011

Siemens may leave its joint venture with Rosatom over ‘mounting internal resistance‘; it called Fukushima ‘an occasion to exit but not its reason‘.  BP has asked TNK-BP to convene a board meeting with Rosneft to discus...
April 7, 2011

Energy Blast – April 7, 2011

Siemens may leave its joint venture with Rosatom over ‘mounting internal resistance‘; it called Fukushima ‘an occasion to exit but not its reason‘.  BP has asked TNK-BP to convene a board meeting with Rosneft to discus...
April 7, 2011

Today in Russian Business – April 7, 2011

Russia has suspended imports of fish from 242 Japanese plants due to fears over radioactivity. Commentators are speculating that the case against Bank of Moscow president Andrei Borodin has an underlying political motive; this Moscow Times piece s...
April 7, 2011

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

TODAY: Livejournal hacked; police department praises latest reforms; Whitmore & FT on the tandem; Posner fails to deliver on promise; Albright on nuclear risk; Minsk needs Moscow; Federal Tax Service under investigation; Soyuz docks; history o...
April 6, 2011

Markelov Paid for Jail Time, says Firestone

The Telegraph has published several pieces relating to Sergei Magnitsky today, including a background piece, a link to a documentary about the lawyer’s death, entitled ‘Justice for Sergei’ (click for trailer), and a piece by...
April 6, 2011

Markelov Paid for Jail Time, says Firestone

The Telegraph has published several pieces relating to Sergei Magnitsky today, including a background piece, a link to a documentary about the lawyer’s death, entitled ‘Justice for Sergei’ (click for trailer), and a piece by...
April 6, 2011

Energy Blast – April 6, 2011

Unrest in the Middle East is a threat to Russia’s oil interests, says Sergei Ivanov, claiming that stable prices would be preferable to sharp increases.  Russia’s gas exports have risen by 20% already this year, with a slight rise...