‘Our movement knows no authority except the authority of the policies of Medvedev and Putin.‘ So says Vasily Yakemenko, the founding father of pro-Kremlin youth group Nashi, celebrating its fifth anniversary this week. The ...
Energy Minister Sergei Shmatko said gas exporting nations are ‘very concerned‘ about the European spot market. Spanish oil company Repsol may sell its stake in Alliance Oil for as much as €70 million. Russia has closed its ...
In the bribery probe of Hewlett-Packard’s Russian offices, the Moscow Times reports that three Russians and four German citizens are accused of organizing a global web of shell companies to hide the transfer of €8 million in connection with ...
TODAY: Russia suspends US adoptions after ‘monstrous deed’; security to be stepped up for Olympics after terror attacks; Kyrgyz scenario could repeat itself; OSCE welcomes Bakiyev’s resignation; BRIC summit, NATO and WTO membersh...
Ukraine announced that it would get rid of its stockpile of highly enriched uranium – ‘enough to construct several nuclear weapons’ – although it would appear that by ‘getting rid of it‘, they mean ‘giving...
Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov says Russia is in no hurry to remove the high import tariffs it imposed last year. Rusal has awarded chief executive Oleg Deripaska a stock bonus worth $62 million for helping it sell shares in Hong Kong: ...
TODAY: Russia and US negotiating Kyrgyz interests, Russia pledges funds; New Times editor won’t hand over police probe material; Chuvashov gun used in Markelov killing? ‘Maximum harshness’ in new terror measures. Medvedev i...
Blogging about Russia used to be fun … the hilarity of those early topless photo shoots of Vladimir Putin, Judo demonstrations, and other key moments in the building of his cult of personality – there was so much to talk about. Now the...
During my last visit to the Khodorkovsky trial courtroom, I had the opportunity to stop the procurators Kovalikhina and Shokhin outside on the staircase with a question: “Do the procurators give interviews?” Shokhin stopped short in su...
President Dmitry Medvedev insists that reports on shale gas deposits in the US are a stimulus for modernizing the Russian economy, not a threat. No sign of that modernization on the horizon, however, as the Natural Resources Minister se...
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