TODAY: Putin’s journalist foe is beaten; Gates finds Putin curious; Duma votes overwhelmingly for Libya ceasefire; human bots and ‘extremism’-monitoring software; Belarus and Kyrgyzstan need Russia; new law will limit independent...
Russia is positively gigantic in the energy news today, dominating headlines as crises in Japan and Libya allow it to step forward as the country that has all the answers, or at least, all of the supplies. Solidifying its image as a rel...
Foreign banks are slowly exiting the Russian market, as domestic banks such as Sberbank and VTB expand (the former posted a sevenfold profit increase of $6 billion for 2010 earlier this week). This is at least partly to do with currentl...
It is no secret that the current wave of pro-democracy demonstrations across the Arab world have shaken the foundations of not only every tyrant’s fortress, but also the foundations of leading foreign policy doctrines. This tug-of-war, which...
Conflict in Libya is only going to strengthen Russia’s position on the energy market, with Gazprom’s shares already having risen by 11% this month, says this piece: ‘Russia could also take advantage of the greater levels of uncer...
President Dmitry Medvedev has signed a law that will relax registration rules for highly-qualified foreign professionals that want to work in Russia. 3M’s planned $15 million Russian investment in to build facilities in Tyumen and Sama...
TODAY: Putin says Medvedev has final say; Gates visit sees disagreements over Libya; Voina donates to political prisoners; Alexeyeva’s half of the Strategy 31 protests to be permitted; bill to reduce prisoners could cause criminal nightmare;...
Interesting piece in today’s FT speculating on links between high growth in the Russian and Indian markets of late, zeroing in on cronyism, India’s January telecoms corruption scandal over 2G licenses, and broader concern over the rise...
Dmitry Medvedev and Vladimir Putin are grabbing headlines with last night’s row over the U.N. Security Council’s resolution on military intervention in Libya, after Putin likened it to ‘medieval calls for crusades‘. (...
The Japanese crisis provides Russia with an opportunity to raise its energy profile, says this WSJ blog, noting Russia’s efforts ‘to position itself as a kind of Saudi Arabia of natural gas‘. In this Telegraph piece, analys...
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