Bloomberg reports that President Dmitry Medvedev will set out upon his upcoming trip to the US with a ‘solid pack of documents’ to be signed, including a large number of commercial agreements. A total of 36,000 unemployed Russian...
TODAY: Russia falls in GPI index; Georgia talks held; Saakashvili fears over Mistral; France asserts commitment on sale to Russia. Medvedev orders civil service cuts; outrage over Ekho Moskvy radio chief’s suggestions for rallies; vict...
Charles Glover has some interesting quotes from polittechnologist Aleksei Makarkin in this FT blog post. “Putin is very pragmatic, he has got political intuition” he said. “Putin knows he needs to re-brand himself in order to be ...
As noted in today’s news blast, Lara Iglitzin and John Hempelmann of the Henry M. Jackson Foundation have published an op/ed in the Seattle Times urging the Obama administration not to cancel the 1975 Jackson-Vanik Ammendment, citing Russia&...
The Moscow Times ponders the future of the Kovykta field as Gazprom leaves it to lie fallow. A spokesperson for the Fund for the Protection of Lake Baikal has said that is unlikely that Russian mini-subs will be able to help plug the oil lea...
The ruble has dropped to its lowest level in nine months after oil fell below $72 per barrel. Sberbank has announced a considerable rise in quarterly profit as bad loans have eased and cost cutting measures become effective. The bank m...
TODAY: Russia confirms allegations of soldiers plundering Polish crash site; Medvedev breach with Putin on ecology? Gazprom tower appeal rejected; Yabloko active on Gen Plan and Lake Baikal; anniversary of journalist murder. Georgia threaten...
In a blog post at New Mandala, the human rights activist Kwanravee Wangudom has published a response to an op/ed in the Bangkok Post which asserted that the government of Thailand had not violated human rights in the violence against protesters in...
Writing in the New Republic, Anne Applebaum reviews the book Children of the Gulag. When the propagandists said that Soviet citizens were becoming ever richer and better fed, many people were inclined to think that this could be true, even though ...
We’re unlikely to get a better photo out of Russia this week. Jump over to Oil & Glory to read about this one and see the video. But don’t think that Putin has gone soft … just pop over here to see how they deal w...
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