TODAY: Luzhkov takes ‘democratic’ stance in new movement; United Russia’s election plans; Kasparov to consider joining new opposition coalition; Viktor Bout trial stalls; cigarette adverts to be banned; Russia cracks down on arti...
Vladimir Socor has an interesting piece over at Eurasia Daily Monitor on Gazprom’s negotiations for an increased supply agreement to Poland’s PGNIG, and the limitations of recent EU legislation designed to limit monopolies in the energ...
Steve LeVine has a new comment on Vladimir Putin’s charm offensive, reacting a slew of articles which have come out recently speculating that the Prime Minister has no interest in returning to the presidency, and that Dmitry Medvedev has est...
President Alexander Lukashenko has never been very well liked by the current Russian leadership. We hear the occasional rumors that Vladimir Putin cannot stand having to spend time with the permanent president of Belarus, while Dmitry Medved...
Russia reportedly pumped a post-Soviet record amount of crude last month as Rosneft boosted output at its new Vankor field. Pundits at the Second Arctic International Economic Forum have disputed claims that the development of the Shtokman p...
According to a Reuters report, US President Barack Obama has told Dmitry Medvedev that Russia has taken ‘significant steps’ towards joining the World Trade Organization. Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin has also asserted that the U...
TODAY: Break with Luzhkovian tradition on dissenting rallies? Sobyanin tipped for mayor position; Foreign Ministry says Magnitsky sanctions will hurt US-Russia reset; France opening door to Russia; Kyrgyzstan elections raise local and internationa...
Blogging over at Index on Censorship, Grigory Pasko takes a look at the recent journalistic efforts of former Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov to take part in the media war between him and the president. Luzhkov-the-journalist also managed to bring up th...
Tanya Lokshina of Human Rights Watch has filed an important and compelling report on the increasing presence of morality enforcers in Ramzan Kadryov’s Chechnya, who place extreme pressure upon local and visiting women to wear headscarves. Th...
Russia’s Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin was not at all pleased to see the country’s foreign reserves dwindle during the 2008 crisis down to some $40 billion. Now that the economy (and oil prices) have picked up, the Ministry is l...
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