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October 26, 2010

Energy Blast – Oct 26, 2010

Russia and the International Atomic Energy Agency say they will cooperate to ensure security at nuclear facilities.  A $6 billion loan from China is to go towards developing Russian coal deposits in Siberia and Sakhalin.  Energy Minister...
October 26, 2010

Today in Russian Business – Oct 26, 2010

It might be the last place you’d expect to find a scandal, but the appointment of the new director of the General Radio Frequency Center comes in the wake of revoked licenses and missing funds.  The birthrate must be on the rise if the ...
October 26, 2010

RA’s Daily Russian News Blast – Oct 26, 2010

TODAY: Strategy 31 rally allowed more protesters; Berezovsky back in the news in connection with journalist’s death; Kasyanov on human rights; Economic Development Ministry acknowledges heatwave deaths; Kadyrov on his ‘idol’; Sob...
October 25, 2010

NATO and Europe on the Rocks

John Vinocur of the New York Times hits upon the contagion effect of the reset policy, and how it is changing French and German approaches to dealing with Russia and the international security architecture. In this European view, the United States...
October 25, 2010

Energy Blast – Oct 23, 2010

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has ordered Transneft – which will not be included in the state’s privatization drive – to improve transparency and disclose information about its pricing policy and investment programs, apparently i...
October 25, 2010

Today in Russian Business – Oct 25, 2010

‘One of the two sides has to leave‘: could Vladimir Potanin’s $9 billion bid to take RusAl’s stake be the end of the companies’ ongoing feud over Norilsk Nickel?  The Finance Ministry wants to have a voice in the...
October 25, 2010

RA’s Daily Russian News Blast – Oct 25, 2010

TODAY: Protesters gather to call for Putin’s ousting; Duma alters protest law; Moscow revokes permission for Strategy 31; gay rights activist sues human rights activist; Moldova conflict and soft power; Rasmussen still hopeful on NATO-Russia...
October 23, 2010

Grigory Pasko: Another Seven Years?

Procurator Lakhtin in the name of the entire UPG – united procuratorial group – demanded to deprive former head of YUKOS Mikhail Khodorkovsky and ex-executive of MFO “Menatep” Platon Lebedev of liberty for a term of 14 year...
October 22, 2010

TGK-2 and the Putin Discount

Another example from the bruising world of Russian corporate governance, minority rights, and rule of law, illustrating why the stock market remains discounted by 40% below other emerging market rivals.  From the Wall Street Journal: Things w...