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December 1, 2010

Energy Blast – Dec 1, 2010

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...
December 1, 2010

Today in Russian Business – Dec 1, 2010

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...
December 1, 2010

RA’s Daily Russian News Blast – Dec 1, 2010

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’...
November 30, 2010

Russia’s Struggle over History

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...
November 30, 2010

Grigory Pasko: Power over the Purse Strings

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 &#...
November 30, 2010

Wikileaks Disappointment Syndrome

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...
November 30, 2010

Energy Blast – Nov 30, 2010

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...
November 30, 2010

Today in Russian Business – Nov 30, 2010

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 ...
November 30, 2010

RA’s Daily Russian News Blast – Nov 30, 2010

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...
November 29, 2010

Undoing Luzhkov

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...