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December 20, 2010

RA’s Daily Russian News Blast – Dec 20, 2010

TODAY: Ethnic tensions linger in Moscow; nationalism and Putinism interwoven? Belarus’ Lukaschenko wins fourth term, protesters claiming election fraud attempt to storm government building; doctor claims Putin hospital visit staged; Nemtsov ...
December 17, 2010

Energy Blast – Dec 17, 2010

Croatian national oil and gas company INA has decided to replace Gazprom with Eni as its natural gas supplier after its current contract ends.  Reuters has an in-depth report on the $25 billion East Siberia-Pacific Ocean pipeline, designed to...
December 17, 2010

Today in Russian Business – Dec 17, 2010

During Vladimir Putin’s Q+A session, which stressed a sunny economic outlook, the Prime Minister suggested that were Ukraine to join the customs union with Russia, Kazakhstan and Belarus, it would be a ‘powerful, important boost’...
December 17, 2010

RA’s Daily Russian News Blast – Dec 17, 2010

TODAY: Putin slams Khodorkovsky in televised Q+A; defends abolition of gubernational elections; Surkov uses weekend violence to justify slow rate of reform, accuses opposition rallies of setting bad example.  European parliament recommends Ma...
December 16, 2010

Video: How to Pressure a Court

Vladimir Putin provides a textbook lesson in legal nihilism, pronouncing guilt before verdict, launching blood libel accusations completely unrelated to the charges, and pressuring the court against his favorite political prisoner, Mikhail Khodork...
December 16, 2010

Energy Blast – Dec 16, 2010

Shareholders in the Caspian Pipeline Consortium have unanimously agreed to invest $5.4 billion in expanding the pipeline which links landlocked Kazakhstan with the Black Sea.  The capacity of the pipeline will increase to 1.5m barrels a day f...
December 16, 2010

Today in Russian Business – Dec 16, 2010

Micex Stock Exchange President Ruben Aganbegyan has told Bloomberg that corruption is ‘a factor in how investors think about us’.   The Moscow Times analyzes the Khodorkovsky verdict’s potential effect on the investment...
December 16, 2010

RA’s Daily Russian News Blast – Dec 16, 2010

TODAY: More than 1000 people detained in Moscow in anticipation of ethnic clashes; rights activist attacked; Wikileaks reveal Politkovskaya faced barrage of death threats. START avoids delays, democrats hopeful; Russia attacks Britain for ‘s...
December 15, 2010

The Vacation Verdict

The fact that the Dec. 15th verdict of Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev was delayed until Dec. 27, smack in between both Christmas holidays and the likely date that the majority of journalists and observers are away from Moscow on holiday, ...
December 15, 2010

Russia’s Cooperation with the Racists

Charles Glover has an extensively well researched and impressively well written report in the Financial Times Magazine on the transformation of nationalist and extremist hate groups in Russia into terrorist organizations, sometimes with the assist...