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September 1, 2010

Energy Blast – Sept 1, 2010

Rosneft’s CEO, rumored to be stepping down, says he will leave the company ‘under no circumstances‘.  Eurasia Drilling is anticipating an increase in drilling volumes this year, amid a general rise in drilling across Russia ...
September 1, 2010

Today in Russian Business – Sept 1, 2010

Although he remains reluctant to mediate in its owners’ dispute which is apparently showing ‘some movement forward‘, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin drew Norilsk Nickel’s shareholders’ attention to the fact that the com...
September 1, 2010

RA’s Daily Russian News Blast – Sept 1, 2010

TODAY: Dozens of Strategy 31 protesters detained in Moscow; EU officials criticize handling of rally; middle classes not interested in investigative reporting, says journalist; FSB declares leaders’ incomes; Latynina blames Communists for ba...
August 31, 2010

Change, From Outside and Within

Interesting article by Susan Richards in the Guardian’s Comment is Free calling for more international support to Russia’s protesters, implying an end to the “Faustian pact with Putin, over energy (in Europe) and the “war a...
August 31, 2010

Grigory Pasko: Children’s Drawings of the Leadership

My 12-year-old son loves to draw. Favorite subjects at different times have been Harry Potter, Spider-Man, anime, and much more. For some reason he never drew Putin, nor Medvedev either. And their wives with dogs and doves he also did not draw. I ...
August 31, 2010

Energy Blast – Aug 31, 2010

Russia’s first clean energy project at the Shaturskaya thermal power plant has been submitted to a UN climate panel in a bid to generate Kyoto carbon credits.  Bloomberg calls the submission a ‘breakthrough‘.  ‘[S...
August 31, 2010

Today in Russian Business – Aug 31, 2010

Boris Levin, the former deputy head of Yevroset, has pleaded guilty to charges of vigilantism, saying he was driven to act by the failure of law enforcement agencies to ‘protect the interests of business‘, but continues to deny charges...
August 31, 2010

RA’s Daily Russian News Blast – Aug 31, 2010

TODAY: Strategy 31 goes global; Khimki activists call for independent assessment; Medvedev monitoring governors; protesters defend Volkonsky house; police crime; Putin denies running Russia; festival attack organized by restaurant-owner? Siberian ...
August 30, 2010

Interview with Lev Ponomarev

Russia-watchers are no doubt aware of the recent arrest of my good friend Lev Ponomarev. Lev is one of the leading lights of the Russian human rights movement, part of the original perestroika-era generation of human rights advocates whose courage...