Vladimir Putin, coughing his way through a cold, made his annual address to the State Duma yesterday, underscoring the need to clear Russia’s budget deficit. It seems one of his measures for doing so is a massive hike in social securit...
A pretty clever one from Simon Tisdall in the Guardian: Now Russia is rightly worried about what it has wrought. President Dmitri Medvedev warned recently of anarchy and a “second Afghanistan”. This week the Russian military was told t...
As a bargaining chip in potentially reduced prices for Ukraine’s purchases of Russian gas, Russia could take a controlling stake – as much as 50% – in Ukraine’s airplane maker Antonov. Ukrainian President Viktor Yanuk...
The recession is over, says Vladimir Putin, but economic crisis is not. Putin’s announcement that $16 billion will be spent on healthcare may please voters but will rankle Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin, who opposes the tax hike that w...
TODAY: Poorly Putin makes annual address to State Duma, New Times documents Putin’s Gazprom cronies; flights from Moscow resume; Medvedev orders military to protect Russians in Kyrgyzstan, Georgia charges Russian tanker, volatile states call...
So Oleg Deripaska of Rusal is getting a breathtaking $62 million bonus for bringing the company to an initial public offer. But don’t worry, he says he is planning on donating two-thirds of it to his own charity, which still leaves him...
Talking about corruption and bribery is generally a good thing, even if the rhetoric itself is empty and hollow. At the very least, it is becoming less convenient to lie about it. However this news about some 50 major multinational companies...
Nina Khrushcheva, who has been interviewed here on this blog, has a great new article on Project Syndicate / The Moscow Times, which casts some doubt with regard to the sudden healing power of mutual morning over the Smolensk airplane crash: Suspi...
A 170-page United Nations report on Russia’s energy sector issues a series of strong criticisms of the current energy situation, suggesting that natural resources extraction is causing long-term damage to the economy, environment, and public...
‘The Sapsan train reflects how the modernization program announced by President Dmitry Medvedev is little more than a sham.‘ A new initiative by German companies working in Russia will see the 50 largest transnational companies o...
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