Sergei Shatalov has announced that Russia plans to introduce a new profit-based tax on oilfield profits from 2010, in a bid to reduce the tax burden on development and discourage production decline. RUSIA Petroleum, which owns the license fo...
Is Sergei Sobyanin going to pave the way in the privatization of state assets? Selling off state assets could cost Moscow in budget revenue, but the cash could offset some of the losses, says Bloomberg. United Russia is the only Duma p...
TODAY: Medvedev to attend NATO summit, ‘worried’ about missile shield; US says end in sight for WTO membership; Chechnya death toll reaches 6, government promises compensation; Go Russia modernization movement; Army of People...
President of the RF Dmitry Medvedev has appointed Mikhail Fedotov as his advisor and chairman of the council under the head of state for contributing to the development of institutions of civil society and for human rights. As is known, the former...
Robert Dallek has a pretty entertaining piece in Foreign Policy on the three common historical myths which tend to lure American heads of state toward disaster, again and again. What’s interesting here is his argument that the ideology...
In a ‘major step for carbon markets‘, the UN has approved its first carbon-reducing joint implementation project, between Germany’s E.On and the Shaturskaya Therman Power Plant. TNK-BP’s dollar bonds surged on the news...
According to Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, the government doesn’t discern between Russian and foreign business, seeking ‘comfortable conditions for everyone‘. Putin has indicated that any privatization of state companies w...
TODAY: 3 killed in Chechen parliament; Duma has no power, says opposition; Gorbachev warns of unrest; EU talks continue with focus on security issues; Sobyanin speaks; Newsweek to close, Novaya Gazeta could follow; comments on the state ...
Given the ideological split between Dmitry Medvedev and the corrupt bureaucracy built around the persona of Vladimir Putin, Leon Aron wonders what strategy the president may take to bring about his desired changes in Russia. From the Washing...
The reset doctrine boldly set forth by the Obama administration is having its expected contagion effect, as European governments are greedily stomping over each other, undermining the common policies of the union, and seemingly throwing rule of la...
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