Today’s news that President Medvedev plans to create his own political party may well be raising an eyebrow or two among commentators. Apparently backed by éminence grise Vladislav Surkov (whose alleged role certainly demands anal...
The beginning of Anna Badhken’s new article in the Boston Globe comparing the Chechen and Iran conflicts is effusively naively in thinking that Russia’s problems in the Caucasus have been solved, nevertheless the discussion merits some...
Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov’s plans to commission a vast series of street posters of Josef Stalin for the May V-Day parade has raised a lot of controversy, not least even statements from United Russia and the Public Chamber that he should canc...
It’s not particularly surprising to me that Boris Berezovsky won his libel lawsuit against RTR for airing a program accusing him of the murder of Alexander Litvinenko. What is more surprising is this brief note in the FT’s covera...
French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s ‘wheeling and dealing‘ with Dmitry Medvedev ‘has become expected as European governments seek to close the gap between their own shrinking energy resources with those provided by Russian m...
Of all the countries in Europe, Russia has the largest number of billionaires, says Forbes. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is in India today to ‘fend off competition from the US and Europe‘ in securing arms and nuclear energy deal...
TODAY: Medvedev calls for LUKoil crash investigation; police force apologizes over human shield incident; Daghestan calls for dismissal of top investigator; Medvedev to form new political party? Protests across Russia as utility prices rise; Berez...
The Federal Anti-Monopoly Service wants to ban oil companies from buying and building gas stations in regions where they have at least 35% of the market, to restore the balance for independent gas station owners who are slowly losing their retail ...
The Times responds to the news that Russia could consider forming a single economic market with Kazakhstan and Belarus by 2012: ‘A common currency would give [Putin] an economic lever to challenge the US dollar and the euro by creating a reg...
TODAY: Swedish Prime Minister in Moscow visit; Medvedev on expanding information presence of CIS states; police to receive moral and psychological support as more misconduct stories break; the failure of the four I’s; rock veteran criticizes...
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