TODAY: Fires claim 40 lives, environmentalists blame government measures; heatwave drownings; Medvedev not keen on a Putin power struggle; 50 detained at Khimki rally; human rights council calls for dismissal of Federal Youth Agency; military vete...
At a joint press conference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in mid-July, President Dmitry Medvedev commented on the legal situation regarding the expansion of FSB powers: “The situation is simple to the extreme. But I would not want ver...
Economists Aleh Tsyvinski and Sergei Guriev have a new article on Russia’s resource curse, arguing that sustained high oil prices combined with a stagnating economy may create a repeat of the Brezhnev era, causing economic modernization and ...
A Good Treaty has a very interesting post up explaining some of the more plausible theories as to why Ella Pamfilova would suddenly resign from the Kremlin’s Human Rights Council – it’s a story that the English-language media hav...
Siberia’s Sayano-Shushenskaya Hydropower Plant, the site of an accident last August that killed 75 people, will see its new hydropower unit launched today. The Moscow Times is running this in-depth Reuters profile of the ‘complet...
Egypt has just agreed to import 180,000 tons of Russian wheat. The news that Polyus Gold is suing the former owners of KazakhGold for $450 million ‘is likely to be alarming for investors holding its international shares,‘ says th...
TODAY: Forest fires in fourteen regions kill 34 and destroy thousands of homes; Strategy 31 protests in Moscow and St Petersburg broken up by police, Boris Nemtsov amid those detained; Pamfilova resigned due to pressure, says Alexeyeva; Khimki for...
A Russian court’s decision earlier this week to ban YouTube in a Russian town because of an extremist video is earning harsh critism from bloggers and activists. The Guardian reports: Anton Nosik, Russia’s leading internet guru, condem...
In a Moscow Times op-ed today, Liam Halligan, chief economist at Prosperity Capital Management, warns that even with Russia’s recently-approved privatization plan, the country’s investment climate leaves much to be desired: Russia̵...
The Guardian brings a report this week providing further details of Anna Chapman’s background, including a video of a recently-unearthed New York Entrepreneur Week interview with Chapman from last year.
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