Owen Matthews has an interesting article on Yuri Milner of Digital Sky Technologies – Facebook investor, former Khodorkovsky employee, and the new face of modern Russian business. Click here to read our last posting on him. You ...
Western diplomats have reportedly advised that the European Union, Russia and China should reject Iran’s invitation to visit its nuclear facilities, as that would undermine the role of the UN’s nuclear watchdog. According to a ne...
Bloomberg reports that a reduction in Russia’s budget deficit which decreases the economy’s vulnerability to vicissitudes in oil prices and a drop in inflation could put ‘upward pressure‘ on its sovereign credit rating.&nbs...
TODAY: Protests against jail time for Nemtsov dispersed, more activists arrested; US senators add to chorus of disapproval; the single person picket phenomenon; ‘creeping censorship’. Medvedev to visit Palestinian territories; Po...
Being that wonderful week between New Year’s and Orthodox Christmas, there is basically no news coming out of Russia as everybody is on holiday. As such, we’re basically going to be posting whatever we feel like, for example, thi...
We’ve given the recent Bollywood summit between Dmitry Medvedev and Mahoman Singh a bit of coverage, but here MK Bhadrakumar gets more in depth. Despite his baroque, flowery writing style, the author provides a glimpse into the future ...
Iran’s rather selective invitation to its nuclear facilities have roused skepticism on the part of Britain and the US, with the latter calling the offer that of a ‘magical mystery tour’ and a ‘public relations stunt‘....
Today Bloomberg offers us a video interview with astute social networking investor, Digital Sky chief Yuri Milner. According to Reuters, Finnish forestry group UPM-Kymmene has denied a newspaper report that it intends to construct a $2 billi...
TODAY: How the Kremlin employs cyber control; Nashi involved in protest thwarting; further detentions of protesters in Moscow; Belarus releases some detainees; US and Russia enjoy anti-hijacking exercise; Shmatko recommends forest-razing to deal w...
When Belarussian dictator Alexander Lukashenko stole an election last Dec. 19, followed by a violent crackdown against protesting citizens and the arrests of some 600 political prisoners, among them, five presidential candidates, you could hardly ...
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