TODAY: Clinton in Moscow to push START onwards; complicated Middle East talks loom in background; EU urges Georgia to cease stirring up tensions with Russia; Ukraine to attempt EU-Russia balancing act. ‘Putin Must Go’ takes to th...
Rosneft’s share price is crashing and they are having export problems due to injunctions secured by Yukos lawyers in the United Kingdom and United States – a measure which Bill Browder of Hermitage is describing as a “major weapo...
I found this article in the New Zealand Herald thoroughly entertaining: apparently the 2014 Sochi Olympic Games will be using something called “Zorbs” – giant blue rolling balls with people running inside of them – as...
This bit from Time magazine gets right at the central problem of the Obama administration’s reset policy with Russia – it just isn’t being reciprocated when there are so many advantages to keeping Washington as the great enemy. B...
Venezuela has agreed to supply crude to Belarussian refineries for joint sale on the European market – possibly spelling bad news for Russia’s income from export duty. Newly elected Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych is hoping...
Russia’s economy could grow faster than expected this year; by as much as 4-4.5% in comparison with predictions of 3-3.5%. See Bloomberg for Russia’s three-pronged strategy to facilitate the economic recovery, currently jeopardiz...
TODAY: Medvedev comes down hard on ministers; prison mastermind fired; could a return to Soviet labor be on the cards? Colonel sentenced for bribe taking; Chernobyl survivors bring lawsuit against Medvedev. Tensions bubbling with Belarus as ...
Today Nezavisimaya Gazeta is reporting that the former Yukos lawyer Dmitry Gololobov, who has in recent years cooperated with prosecutors in testimony against defendants and published materials against the case before the ECHR, has accepted a Vice...
This news pretty much speaks for itself. The clock is now ticking on how long the president can blame others for the lack of fulfillment of his statements on reform. From the Financial Times: On Tuesday he told a video conference with ...
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