Rosatom will build Venezuela’s first nuclear power plant, in exchange for licenses allowing Rosneft and TNK-BP to purchase various assets in Europe and South America. After seven hours of talks last week, Venezuelan President Hugo Cháv...
On plans to turn Russia into a ‘tourist paradise‘ by 2016: ‘We are going to do everything possible so that a foreign visitor feels comfortable in Russia.‘ eFinancial News writes on the uncertainty and anticipation sur...
TODAY: Medvedev nominates Sergei Sobyanin as Moscow Mayor; floods in Krasnodar kill 13; Russia to meet with France and Germany on EU foreign policy; human rights court rules in favour of Russian HIV prisoner; Magnitsky supporters could be charged;...
As many readers of this blog are aware, I act as counsel to Dr. Chee Soon Juan, the persecuted leader of the Singaporean opposition party. Dr. Chee recently wrote an open letter to strongman Lee Kuan Yew, whose family has had control of the ...
Vladislav Inozemtsev’s article in the Moscow Times today comparing Medvedev’s modernization drive with Gorbachev’s perestroika is well worth reading. Inozemtsev sees a relatively straight line driving through the recent his...
The fate of the Nabucco pipeline is under scrutiny this week, as delays on investment and uncertainty about gas sources are stalling its completion. The politics involved in sourcing the gas required are complex. The Economist says tha...
Delays on Turkish, Italian and Bulgarian operations for the South Stream pipeline are threatening the pipeline and sparking ‘serious doubts that Gazprom can deliver its first gas through South Stream in 2015 as planned.‘ Gazprom ...
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin says that the rouble is in ‘an optimal state‘. Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin on currency wars: ‘especially worrying‘. The Central Bank’s move to widen its intervention corrid...
TODAY: Alekseyeva calls for Germany to ban officials linked to Magnitsky’s death; new political party calls for direct elections; Duma to survey attendees; census begins; Putin to meet happy evictees; authors tour their FSB book; Georgia wan...
Amid a spate of articles conjecturing about the 2012 presidential elections, today on RFE/RL Richard Sakwa puts forward a convincing argument for why Vladimir Putin is unlikely to return to the position in two years time: Even though he undoubtedl...
To provide the best experiences, we use technologies like cookies to store and/or access device information. Consenting to these technologies will allow us to process data such as browsing behavior or unique IDs on this site. Not consenting or withdrawing consent, may adversely affect certain features and functions.
Functional
Always active
The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network.
Preferences
The technical storage or access is necessary for the legitimate purpose of storing preferences that are not requested by the subscriber or user.
Statistics
The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for statistical purposes.The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for anonymous statistical purposes. Without a subpoena, voluntary compliance on the part of your Internet Service Provider, or additional records from a third party, information stored or retrieved for this purpose alone cannot usually be used to identify you.
Marketing
The technical storage or access is required to create user profiles to send advertising, or to track the user on a website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes.
