India and Russia have signed a nuclear cooperation agreement, which will see Russia assist in the building of around 20 ‘ultrasafe’ reactors at three locations in India. European states could take unilateral measures on Iran sanc...
Russia’s central bank is planning to introduce stricter requirements for banks this year as it reduces the weight of emergency liquidity measures put into place at the apex of the crisis. There is a Q+A in Reuters on whether Russia nee...
TODAY: High turn-out in regional elections clouded in allegations of fraud; United Russia victory looks likely; spoof TV show showing Russian invasion sends panic across Georgia. START replacement deal imminent (apparently). Mass protest against t...
Today’s analysis of the buildup to the weekend’s regional elections may feel like old news to many: the talk of disappointment at the apparent continual and purposeful marginalization of opposition parties, despite Medvedev’s pro...
Getting the cold shoulder from the art world isn’t much of a surprise when you oversee the banning of exhibitions, allow for the arrest of an artist for taking your image in vain and, lest we forget, flirt occasionally with watercolors, but ...
Will Putin’s visit to the world’s largest democracy ‘resuscitate the flagging relationship’ Russia currently shares with it, as this commentator in the Financial Times puts it? For a considerable period Russia has hel...
The advent of ‘game-changing‘ shale gas is the subject of a glut of articles in today and yesterday’s press, all of which make no denial that this gas could have a seismic effect on the global energy trade and force a re-alignmen...
Apparently India’s state-run Oil and Natural Gas Corp may be invited to develop projects in Russia, and is looking for stakes in partnership with Rosneft and Gazprom in the Yamal Peninsula, East Siberia and the Sakhalin-3 project. Impr...
Putin’s India visit heralds a flurry of deals in energy, aviation and arms: contracts worth $10 billion are allegedly to be signed. Improved banking ties may be one branch of the plethora of negotiations. It is also reported that...
TODAY: Regional election promise little advance for opposition parties; anti-Putin petition making waves. Close Yanukovych ally named Ukrainian PM; Russia suspicious of US presence in Kyrgyzstan; buying up land in Paris. US human rights survey fla...
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