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March 18, 2011

Energy Blast – March 18, 2011

A US lawmaker has gone after France and Russia for ‘irresponsible‘ behavior for spreading their nuclear expertise through unstable regimes, and Anatoly Chubais’ urging of Russia to develop nuclear and thermal and alternative...
March 18, 2011

Today in Russian Business – March 18, 2011

Healthcare spending would need to increase by 15% if Russia wants to reach EU standards by 2020, but Russia can ‘ill afford [it] in the foreseeable future.‘  Russia’s Micex stock market has advanced on rising oil prices and ...
March 18, 2011

RA’s Daily Russian News Blast – March 18, 2011

TODAY: Russia abstains from vote as U.N. prepares to move on no-fly zone, Churkin concerned; Russians in the Far East are stockpiling amid Japan fallout fears; Defense Ministry official jailed for corruption; rights advocates create unlawful extra...
March 17, 2011

How Rosatom Copes with a Nuclear Meltdown

The words ‘Chernobyl’ and ‘meltdown’ have flashed repeatedly across newspaper pages over the past few days, not for the reasons we might have anticipated a month ago (in reference to the upcoming 25th anniversary of the dis...
March 17, 2011

Grigory Pasko: The Backwaters of Nord Stream

Recently the Nord Stream AG company website joyously reports to all about how the world’s largest pipeline-laying vessel Solitaire has completed its complex of works with respect to the laying of the first line of the «Nord Stream» gas pipel...
March 17, 2011

Grigory Pasko: The Backwaters of Nord Stream

Recently the Nord Stream AG company website joyously reports to all about how the world’s largest pipeline-laying vessel Solitaire has completed its complex of works with respect to the laying of the first line of the «Nord Stream» gas pipel...
March 17, 2011

Energy Blast – March 17, 2011

The ‘[w]orst case scenario’, is how the head of Russia’s state nuclear corporation Rosatom has described the development of the nuclear emergency at Japan’s earthquake-damaged Fukushima plant.  Which is a problem for R...
March 17, 2011

Today in Russian Business – March 17, 2011

Whilst the Nikkei index plummets in the wake of Japan’s post-earthquake nuclear crisis, Russia has announced it does not intend to reduce investment in the country’s state debt.  Ria-Novosti examines some of the concerns apparentl...
March 17, 2011

Today in Russian Business – March 17, 2011

Whilst the Nikkei index plummets in the wake of Japan’s post-earthquake nuclear crisis, Russia has announced it does not intend to reduce investment in the country’s state debt.  Ria-Novosti examines some of the concerns apparentl...
March 17, 2011

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

TODAY: Khimki forest champion’s offices raided; opposition divided on March 31 rallies; Pearl Ensign trial delayed (again); Putin puts business before rights in Minsk.  Medvedev cautions against military intervention in Libya; Latvia...