“Official persons during execution of duties imposed upon them with respect to the implementation of state forestry control and oversight may apply in the capacity of special means: rubber truncheons, tear gas, handcuffs, means for the force...
We haven’t heard from our Russian colleague, The Polittechnologist, for quite a while now. Just recently, he brought our attention to the official website of the Federal Service of the Russian Federation for Control over the Narcotics Trade,...
Writing on the WSJ blog The Source, James Herron notes that Gazprom gave its first major sign that it is reeling on its back heels to preserve market share as it has “cracked open some of its sacred texts” of natural gas pricing as lin...
So today Viktor Yanukovych was sworn in as the fourth president of Ukraine, after having won a low-turn out but free and fair presidential election, just six years after having attempted electoral fraud to gain the nation’s highest office.&n...
Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says there is no hard proof that Iran is working on nuclear weapons, while Dmitry Medvedev has called for Tehran to behave responsibly – ‘We believe that Iran should adapt its nuclear programs to meet the...
According to new figures from KPMG, mergers and acquisitions activity in Russia dropped by 62% in 2009, with $46.1 billion in deals, compared with $122.4 billion for the previous year. Oil and gas, and communications and media, were the best...
TODAY: Visa-free travel with Europe on the agenda; Medvedev and Putin have ‘same blood’; Akhipov to seek medical care abroad; uproar over United Russia consultant who has thus far escaped charges for killing a pedestrian with her car; ...
It’s understandable … every now and again we are likely to hear somebody get bullish on the Russian market again, especially when it is one of the cheapest in the world at current prices. So why have prices stayed so low, and why...
Anders Åslund has a good article published in the Moscow Times on Gazprom and the energy curse. In sum, Gazprom may have far too much gas in the medium term because of likely energy savings both at home and abroad, whereas the prices that Russian ...
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