Following an agreement by all the parties involved including the Finance Ministry, the Central Bank will be permitted to sell its stake in Sberbank. Sberbank’s preference is that the privatization be done through a bourse rather than d...
TODAY: 30 detained (including Pomonarev) at unsanctioned Moscow rally; Medvedev appoints human rights council replacement, consults with rock stars over Moscow mayor; Pavlovsk seed bank auction postponed; Schwarzenegger on traffic jams; Lavrov on ...
Vice President Joe Biden and the Democrat Party at large have recently embarked upon a messianic crusade to attack opposition fundraising, invoking the time-honored tropes of classic populism. “It bothers me, all these unattributed contribut...
He may have trouble pronouncing Dmitry Medvedev’s name, but he has no qualms about the country’s investment climate. Hopefully California gets some bail out help in exchange for this visit…
Writing for RCW, Daniel McGroarty takes a look Atomredmetzoloto (part of state-owned company Rosatom) and its controversial asset swap to take majority control of the Canadian mining company Uranium One – including its properties in the Unit...
Declinism is a hot topic these days, and although the predictions have been so comically off-base in the past, it feels more real this time (just like every time). Maybe those kooky experts that RT regularly digs up are actually on the vangu...
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is hinting at tax breaks for gas, offshore and LNG as part of efforts to ramp up production to 2030. Alexei Miller had previously warned that a proposed mineral extraction tax for gas would cost Gazprom $6.7 bil...
Hermitage Capital Management’s Bill Browder has responded to Arnold Schwarzenegger’s enthusiasm for Russia’s investor potential: ‘With all due respect, Governor Schwarzenegger has no idea of the risks of investing in Russia...
TODAY: United Russia takes sweeping victory as fraud allegations continue; Luzhkov says he will not quit politics; Iranian official wants to sue Russia over missiles; Medvedev jokingly offers Schwarzenegger a job; Kozmino port to use mollusks to m...
In an article I wrote for the Index about Luzhkov-the-journalist that the former mayor of Moscow has no doubt dreamed about how upon the expiration of his powers he will be conferred the honor of being put on display in his city in the form of a m...
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