TODAY: Tusk speaks out on crash report; Lavrov conveys solidarity with Poland; says no further nuclear reductions in immediate future; Russian anger at treatment of Bout’s wife; OSCE steps up pressure on Belarus; Gibbs vs ITAR-TASS; Murder c...
I’m not sure who said it first, but it’s often said that one of the key problems in the U.S.-Russia relationship is that both capitals see the other in decline (most explicitly illustrated by the Joe Biden). This perspective is a...
The Independent reports that oil has crept up to almost $99 a barrel, leading analysts to consider that the arrival of the ‘psychologically important’ $100 barrel is ‘only a matter of time’. Russian Foreign Minister S...
Bloomberg reports that Russia has been deemed the 10th-riskiest country for investors out of 196, sliding from 15th last year, in U.K risk-assessment company Maplecroft’s annual Political Risk Atlas. A new Kremlin decree preventing for...
TODAY: Polish anger at presidential plane crash report; Freedom House sees decline in Russia democracy; Slavic Force leader arrested; St Petersburg gives the go ahead to ultra-nationalist rally; Limonov and Nemtsov lose appeals. Norway-Russi...
Matthew Rojansky and James Collins of Carnegie describe some of the likely scenarios indicating where Alexander Lukashenko will steer the country next, but really the situation is likely to come down to balance of payments, privatization of assets...
Edward Lucas has a striking criticism of a new book on Russia’s economic revival by Daniel Treisman published in the Wall Street Journal. I haven’t yet read Treisman’s book, but judging from his recent co-authored essay in ...
It seems clear that the plane crash which killed President Lech Kaczynski in Smolensk was the fault of the Polish pilots, however Warsaw was not too pleased by the level of cooperation during the investigation. From the Wall Street Journal: ...
Gazprom CEO Alexei Miller apparently believes that the energy exporter could reach pre-financial crisis levels of gas production by the end of 2011. Australia’s devastating floods could reduce steelmaking coal supplies by over 5% this ...
President Medvedev has asserted that the new civilian nuclear pact between the US and Russia ‘should not be politicized […] but treated as business’. Why food in Russia is becoming so expensive, from the FT. Reuters h...
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