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June 4, 2010

Energy Blast – June 4, 2010

According to Ria-Novosti, a Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman has stated that Iran has not ceased its uranium enrichment program.  Italian oil firm ENI is planning on major investments in energy-rich Turkmenistan.  Kazakhstan’s na...
June 4, 2010

Today in Russian Business – June 4, 2010

‘It is not only our laws that matter, but […] how the rights and lawful interests of business people and those who will come to our market are protected’: Medvedev reassures foreign investors.  Vladimir Putin has agreed to b...
June 4, 2010

RA’s Daily Russian News Blast – June 4, 2010

TODAY: Another Hermitage lawyer under attack; United Russia quashes Duma discussion of Monday’s protests; opposition suggest Speaker’s Corner for Moscow; Duma will not castigate no show deputies. Ukraine agrees on no to NATO: military ...
June 3, 2010

CIA and Prosecution Falter on Kazakhgate

It’s hard to say what is more disgusting:  that President-for-life Nursultan Nazarbayev has taken hundreds of millions in bribes, that his New York bagman James Giffen doesn’t deny passing along $78 million of these bribes, or tha...
June 3, 2010

An American Prisoner in Rwanda

Earlier this week I linked to some news about the American law professor Peter Erlinder, who while working in defense of a political prisoner and opposition leader in Rwanda was himself jailed on a specious charge of denying the 1994 genocide.&nbs...
June 3, 2010

Energy Blast – June 3, 2010

Lukoil has enjoyed an exuberant first quarter, almost doubling profit on a year earlier.  Slavneft will sell some of its oil field service units this month.  Reuters reports that TNK-BP has announced that the subsidiary which owns the co...
June 3, 2010

Today in Russian Business – June 3, 2010

The Economic Development Ministry expects GDP to grow 3.4% next year with the average price of oil predicted to rise to $75 a barrel.  Prime Minister Putin has apparently told cabinet ministers that Russia will be able to surmount economic pr...
June 3, 2010

RA’s Daily Russian News Blast – June 3, 2010

TODAY:  EU to consider visa relaxation, but fast resolution unlikely; Shuvalov acknowledges bribery problem; commemoration for victims of a Soviet protest rally crackdown.  Medvedev optimistic on birth rate rise; FSB reports on terrorist...
June 2, 2010

Russia in NATO

On Victory Day this year, active duty U.S. soldiers were invited to march through Red Square for the first time in history … does this signal a willingness on behalf of Moscow to entertain discussions about NATO ascension?  Is such a co...