Analysts are predicting a Russian energy dispute with Belarus this season, as pricing issues remain unresolved. More potentially embarrassing WikiLeaks, this time from KazMunaiGaz, who alleged that Gazprom and China National Petroleum Compan...
Small businesses in certain sectors will be given a two-year transition period to higher rates of payroll taxes, says President Dmitry Medvedev, amid concerns that many would not otherwise be able to cope with the new rates. As part of prepa...
TODAY: Medvedev’s state-of-the-nation address addresses with social issues, threats of arms race with NATO backed by Putin; new WikiLeaks; Igor Izmestyev wrongly charged? Kasparov on Khodorkovsky; art, poetry. President Dmitry Medvedev’...
Carnegie Moscow Center has released a new collection of working papers under the title “Engaging History: The Problems & Politics of Memory in Russia and the Post-Socialist Space,” tackling a subject of great interest to us. The co...
During an international investment forum held last month in Moscow, Premier Putin boldly declared: “We are going to economize every ruble of the budget in the strictest possible way!” He also said a whole bunch of other things there ...
Writing on Foreign Policy/NPR, Julia Ioffe points out that pretty much everything revealed in the latest Wikileaks document dump is already well known, and not really a big deal in Russia. No democracy? That’s certainly news.&nbs...
TNK-BP’s planned Geneva trading unit could help the company to double its oil product trades, it says. Gazprom and Naftogaz say that they have settled their two-year-old gas dispute, with the latter pledging to return 12.1 billion cubi...
The BBC are running a video report on William Browder, which includes interviews with Interior Ministry officials on Russia’s plans to ruin his business interests. ‘There is this general unease with Russia […] The economic ...
TODAY: Kashin attackers post video, journalist writes first column since attack; Parfenov’s ‘magic touch’; Kremlin unperturbed by Wikileaks; has Russia broken long-standing pledges to NATO? Nashi founder, officials accused of cri...
President Dmitry Medvedev may have succeeded in chucking out Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov, but he’s apparently not done with him yet. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev identified the fight against corruption and crime a priority of the Moscow c...
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