TODAY: Luzkhov ousted by Presidential decree; Mayor had apparently refused to resign. British Foreign Secretary highlights Magnitsky case; Iran threatens to sue over undelivered missiles; HIV reportedly more widespread than government acknowledges...
Russia Profile has an interesting piece looking into the efforts of real estate mogul Telman Ismailov to get back into the good graces of the Kremlin. Having seen what is happening to Mayor Yuri Luzhkov, Ismailov’s rehabilitation campa...
For several years Russia has been hedging European natural gas consumers with the threat of sending more product east to fuel the industrial growth of China, yet for all the talk, there still has not been a significant increase in the trade (there...
President Medvedev is on his second official visit to China for talks with Premier Wen Jiabao, which commentators suggest is an attempt to seal a deal on supplying gas to its eastern neighbor, as of 2015, although no agreement has been met on pric...
As President Medvedev visits China in an effort to improve bilateral ties, Rusal has announced signing a letter of intent to purchase a stake in a Chinese marketing unit to deliver 2 million tonnes of alloys to the far eastern market. A Chin...
TODAY: Anti-mayoral protests in Moscow; Luzhkov returns; Ryazan rally crack down; Go Russia all the rage; Investigative Committee’s growing powers; Polish warmth towards Moscow fading; Islamophobia in the capital? ‘The ground is shakin...
Robert Skidelsky goes to both Valdai and Yaroslavl, finding not only competing ideas on history, democracy, and modernization, but a “faint but unmistakable odor of a looming conflict” and “a fascinating glimpse of a crumbling di...
This is the second in a series of webcasts we are trying out here on the blog. The Domestic Appeal of the Russia “Reset” from Robert Amsterdam on Vimeo.
‘If you stand alone you can’t survive in the Arctic. Nature makes people and states to help each other’: such was, apparently, the tone of Vladimir Putin’s speech at the first Arctic Conference, where the Prime Minister dow...
A senior U.S. Chamber of Commerce official has reportedly asserted that Russia and the US will not resolve points of contention in Russia’s bid to join the WTO before the end of the year. Suleiman Kerimov is feeling the wrath of State ...
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