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August 13, 2010

Today in Russian Business – Aug 13, 2010

The President of the dairy Russkoye Moloko, ‘established to promote the Orthodox revival of Russia‘, says that employees who have abortions or get married outside of the Orthodox church will be fired.  It’s official: Moldova...
August 13, 2010

RA’s Daily Russian News Blast – Aug 13, 2010

TODAY: Putin fails to mark 10th anniversary of Kursk submarine disaster; doctors told not to diagnose heatstroke; 35 protesters detained at anti-Luzhkov rally; Levada polls Putin’s failures; reconstruction webcams point to empty fields; spac...
August 12, 2010

Clinton Pushing START

Hillary Clinton is urging the Senate to quickly pass the New START treaty, arguing that it will make relations with Russia more stable and predictable. The CNN reports: There is nothing in the measure that will prevent the United States from moder...
August 12, 2010

Russia Refuses to Hand Over Jewish Library

A US court ruled last week that Russia should hand over Jewish manuscripts, confiscated by the Red Army in Germany during World War II, to the Chabad Lubavitch movement, a Hasidic group based in New York. But Russia is saying that the ruling contr...
August 12, 2010

Energy Blast – Aug 12, 2010

May the bidding begin: the government has set a $603 million starting price for bidding on the Trebs and Titov oil fields, together with conditions tying 42% of the refining to Russia.  LUKoil, in spite of its strong US presence, has res...
August 12, 2010

Today in Russian Business – Aug 12, 2010

RusAl has filed a request with the London Court of Arbitration over its dispute with Interros regarding the companies’ Norilsk Nickel stakes – both hold 25%, but RusAl says it was given less board seats than Interros. Said the latter o...
August 12, 2010

RA’s Daily Russian News Blast – Aug 12, 2010

TODAY: Moscow air improves but fires still rage; blogger suggests Putin be fined for flying without license; China pledges support; what happened to the Aerial Forest Protection Center? Over 90% of prisoners have health problems; Magnitsky police ...
August 12, 2010

Grigory Pasko: Ten Years after the Kursk

On August 12, 2000 the Russian nuclear submarine APL “Kursk” sank in the Barents Sea during exercises of the Navy’s Northern Fleet. In so doing the entire crew of the submarine, consisting of 118 people, died. In traditional Russ...
August 11, 2010

Threat of Radioactive Smoke and Chernobyl Comparisons

The Christian Science Monitor takes a look at the dangers associated with the spread of Russia’s wildfires to areas still contaminated by the fallout from Chernobyl. The threat of radioactive smoke spreading across the region is a real one, ...
August 11, 2010

Abkhazia Gets Russian Missiles

Staying true to its word to provide support for Georgia’s breakaway territories, Russia announced today it has deployed anti-aircraft missiles in Abkhazia. According to some Russian experts, the move could be a warning directed at Nato and t...