This week the Bagehot column in the Economist takes a look at the wild proliferation of judicial inquiries initiated in the United Kingdom, commenting that the calls for these activist judges to enter the realm of politics feeds off a deepening pu...
The President of Turkmenistan, Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov, expressed his eagerness today to boost gas exports in cooperation with Russia. A number of major Russian energy companies, including SUEK and Inter RAO, have signed Market Council ag...
Former Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov is not optimistic about the government’s privatization plan, anticipating that a lack of transparency will ‘raise a lot of questions‘ about prices, as Economic Development Minister Elvira Na...
TODAY: Sobyanin formally appointed, replaced by ‘margarine oligarch’; Strategy 31 protesters urge Moscow to allow more to gather; European Court of Human Rights rules on gay protests; Luzhkov turns on United Russia; Beketov misses tria...
Iran is refining uranium ‘to power a medical research reactor‘, and welcomes further talks on its nuclear program if the agenda is clear before they begin, says the director of its Atomic Energy Organization. President Dmitry Med...
First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov has discussed details of the government’s privatization plans, which could see sales of 900 company stakes with a total value of $58.5 billion, and include a 100% stake in United Grain Company, just ...
TODAY: Krasnodar floods affect 6,000; Strategy 31 protests receive sanction for a 200-strong march; Russia gets low press freedom rating; Sobyanin to be voted in today, Luzhkov begins university lecturing; negative similarities with Ukraine, Chech...
Looks like the G20 is rapidly losing credibility, as core members Brazil and India have both spurned meetings this week ahead of the November summit in South Korea. There are some interesting factors pushing emerging BRIC nations away from t...
China’s recent aggressive power plays on the world stage ahead of the next G20 meeting have been dominating the news. The dispute with Japan over an arrested fisherman and some uninhabited rocks unveiled a bold new level of rhetoric, w...
Reports are coming in from Mikhail Kasyanov’s visit to Washington. Below is from Fred Hiatt of the Washington Post: Kasyanov, himself a former prime minister, dropped by The Post on Monday — the same day, as it happens, that Russ...
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