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March 31, 2010

Today in Russian Business – March 31, 2010

Watch a video of Hermitage Capital chief executive William Browder discussing investment conditions in Russia. Evraz Group reported a net loss of $1.26 billion last year on the back of falling steel output prices.  Perhaps the news that globa...
March 31, 2010

RA’s Daily Russian News Blast – March 31, 2010

TODAY: Second bomb attack in Dagestan kills 12 more, public debate turns to anger; Kyiv to install surveillance cameras; state TV defends poor coverage of bombings; Luzhkov praises Muscovites whilst Putin makes sewer references; FSB concerned abou...
March 30, 2010

A Finger on the Pulse

I agree with Blake Hounshell’s point here on Foreign Policy Passport … though it does make me worry about giving the people what they want.  As though we needed more proof that the U.S. and Russia are so much alike. Putin said he&...
March 30, 2010

Mourning Governance

On Tuesday, Russians observed a day of mourning for the 39 dead and more than 70 wounded Muscovites following the suicide bombing of Metro stations Lubyanka and Park Kultury.  The fact that the unsolved war in the North Caucasus has come back...
March 30, 2010

UN Granted Immunity for Srebrenica

Over on Opinio Juris, an international law blog which I read religiously, I caught the news today of a Dutch court of appeals backing an earlier ruling which has granted immunity to the United Nations over the Srebrenica massacre, meaning that the...
March 30, 2010

Grigory Pasko: Dispatch from a Show Trial

March 31 will mark the one year anniversary of the start of the second trial of Mikhail Khodorkovsky. When a court trial drags on for more than a year, I need not listen to the hearsay, but rather I have had the “pleasure” of observing...
March 30, 2010

Terror Attack Targeted FSB

I clearly understood that the choice of the Lubyanka station was to send a message to the FSB, but it is interesting to note that 1) the bombers could have selected a different station to claim more victims, and 2) the Park Kultury attack may have...
March 30, 2010

Energy Blast – March 30, 2010

State-run nuclear holding Rosatom believes that its agreement with the International Atomic Energy Agency to create a 120-ton uranium fuel bank will help widen demand for nuclear power.  Uranium prices may start to rise at the end of the year...