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April 1, 2011

Today in Russian Business – April 1, 2011

Russia is about to grant Belarus a $3 billion loan.  Reuters has a factbox on the biggest state-owned Russian companies.  A World Bank report on the Russian economy, released earlier this week, suggests that salaries and incomes are on t...
April 1, 2011

RA’s Daily Russian News Blast – April 1, 2011

TODAY: Strategy 31 protests see 150 arrested in Moscow and St Petersburg including opposition leaders, U.S. concerned; troops to be posted in Arctic; banned spying devices could include mobile phones; supercomputer to monitor bloggers; strangeness...
March 31, 2011

Grigory Pasko: Russia’s Brain Drain

It would seem I had already become accustomed to the notion that there is practically not one single corner of the earth left where you can’t find a Russian person. From Australia to Iceland, from Brazil to Japan, we are everywhere, sometime...
March 31, 2011

Russian Week Against Homophobia

The Russian LGBT Network has announced that this week is the fifth annual Russian Week Against Homophobia.  Unfortunate timing, then, for United Russia and five of Russia’s other, major registered political parties to have shunned a rou...
March 31, 2011

Russian Week Against Homophobia

The Russian LGBT Network has announced that this week is the fifth annual Russian Week Against Homophobia.  Unfortunate timing, then, for United Russia and five of Russia’s other, major registered political parties to have shunned a rou...
March 31, 2011

2011: A New Horizon for Investment?

Is Dmitry Medvedev ramping up efforts to win the public’s vote ahead of next year’s Presidential elections?  It seems almost absurd to put such a motive behind recent events, given how staged the bigger Russian political moves alw...
March 31, 2011

2011: A New Horizon for Investment?

Is Dmitry Medvedev ramping up efforts to win the public’s vote ahead of next year’s Presidential elections?  It seems almost absurd to put such a motive behind recent events, given how staged the bigger Russian political moves alw...
March 31, 2011

Energy Blast – March 31, 2011

Environmental polluters (‘dirty‘ metals firms in particular) are going to receive higher penalties over the next decade, says Vladimir Putin, with the charge for ‘negative environmental impact‘ to rise in stages, and cut in...
March 31, 2011

Energy Blast – March 31, 2011

Environmental polluters (‘dirty‘ metals firms in particular) are going to receive higher penalties over the next decade, says Vladimir Putin, with the charge for ‘negative environmental impact‘ to rise in stages, and cut in...
March 31, 2011

Today in Russian Business – March 31, 2011

President Dmitry Medvedev has gone on a verbal ‘rampage‘ against the ‘very bad, very bad‘ investment climate, saying that state-run companies should not have ministers on their board of directors, and that this measure woul...