TODAY: Russia-US adoptions freeze could continue for months; court to uphold ban on jury trials for terrorists; Uzbek President meets with Medvedev; Kyrgyzstan dealing with riots; United Russia conferences show ’empty rhetoric’, Prokho...
Author’s intro: President Dmitry Medvedev recently sent a package of amendments to the Criminal Code and the Code of Criminal Procedure to the State Duma. The amendments, as was announced, are aimed at the humanization of punishments f...
Roger Boyes writes in the Times about how the Smolensk airliner crash will open a new phase in Polish-Russian relations. I think the jury’s still out on that one, and that such expectations are much to high for the current leadership i...
Adam Michnik, editor of Gazeta Wyborzca, has published a reaction to the Russian embrace of Poland following the Smolensk crash. From the New York Review of Books: History has often separated Poles and Russians. On both sides the hearts were...
The Gas Exporting Countries Forum is meeting today to make a decision on whether or not to raise gas prices for European supplies. Russia’s Sergei Shmatko says that prices should be based on long-term contracts, against the Algerian en...
Russia’s first international debt sale since the 1998 financial crisis will see it offering 5 and 10-year dollar bonds, as it plans to borrow as much as $17.8 billion abroad this year. VimpelCom has withdrawn its lawsuit against Teleno...
TODAY: Medvedev’s appearance at Kaczynski’s funeral seen as solidarity; volcanic ash cloud could reach Russian Far East; Kyrgyz government answering to Russia? Nato wants Russia involved in missile defense; Duma passes first read...
An interesting opinion piece by Marjorie Castle in the Washington Post highlights the importance of Lech Kaczynski’s surviving twin, Jaroslaw, and how his interpretation of the tragedy will have a profound impact on Polish politics. The rema...
Many people are quite legitimately upset and shocked about the sudden death of the Polish president in Russia. However, in all the memory-making going on in this period of mourning, there have been some misunderstandings of Kaczynski’s...
According to Forbes today, an investment firm has chucked Russia out of its BRIC fund and replaced it with South Korea. The Economist echoes the sentiment in a piece on the viability of the BRIC grouping, arguing that Russia is the one letti...
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