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March 14, 2011

Today in Russian Business – March 14, 2011

A roundtable on Russian corporate governance last week suggested that it had not been negatively affected by the recession, despite damaged credit ratings.  Leonid Komarovsky in the Moscow Times today accuses Ashot Yegiazaryan of ascribing to...
March 14, 2011

RA’s Daily Russian News Blast – March 14, 2011

TODAY: United Russia wins regional elections as opposition complains about dirty tactics; Russia to help Japan with energy supplies; Putin’s visa-free US travel suggestion was also made by Medvedev days earlier, says the Kremlin; Shavenkova ...
March 14, 2011

RA’s Daily Russian News Blast – March 14, 2011

TODAY: United Russia wins regional elections as opposition complains about dirty tactics; Russia to help Japan with energy supplies; Putin’s visa-free US travel suggestion was also made by Medvedev days earlier, says the Kremlin; Shavenkova ...
March 11, 2011

Gordon Brown on Anna Politkovskaya

It’s nice to see this piece in The Independent today from Gordon Brown remembering Anna Politkovskaya.  I’m trying to figure out the timing of this move, given that it is not the anniversary of Anna’s death, and given also t...
March 11, 2011

Gordon Brown on Anna Politkovskaya

It’s nice to see this piece in The Independent today from Gordon Brown remembering Anna Politkovskaya.  I’m trying to figure out the timing of this move, given that it is not the anniversary of Anna’s death, and given also t...
March 11, 2011

The Backwards Oil Boom

$76.50 of the $113 paid for Urals crude at the moment goes to the Russian treasury, says Will Englund in the Washington Post, in a piece that addresses the boons and pitfalls of the current oil price spike.  The current price is slowing globa...
March 11, 2011

Energy Blast – March 11, 2011

The high price of oil is damaging to the global economy because it ‘dampens consumer spending and that cuts into economic growth‘ – for everyone except OPEC members and major oil producers like Russia, that is.  Lukoil is a ...
March 11, 2011

Energy Blast – March 11, 2011

The high price of oil is damaging to the global economy because it ‘dampens consumer spending and that cuts into economic growth‘ – for everyone except OPEC members and major oil producers like Russia, that is.  Lukoil is a ...
March 11, 2011

Today in Russian Business – March 11, 2011

The latest Forbes stats on the world’s richest people saw Russia scoring high, but it’s nothing to be proud of, says ITAR-TASS, the figures ‘merely underline the glaring social inequality in the country, which cannot be seen in a...
March 11, 2011

RA’s Daily Russian News Blast – March 11, 2011

TODAY: Biden lukewarm on abolishing visas; Nemtsov and Alexeyeva praise Biden’s attention to rights and democracy issues; missile defense; regional elections to be held on Sunday; growing number of Russian claims filed with EU Court of Human...