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February 22, 2010

Energy Blast – Feb 22, 2010

Energy Minister Sergei Shmatko says Russia may seek to specify exemptions on East Siberian oil exports depending on fields, while keeping the tax break as a ‘long-term measure‘ to stimulate investments.  Shmatko also commented tha...
February 22, 2010

Today in Russian Business – Feb 22, 2010

‘[L]et me explain why the innovation economy and the creation of creative reservations for scientists are completely beside the point,‘ says Georgy Satarov. Will the global market be interested in the estimated $50 billion that will be...
February 22, 2010

RA’s Daily Russian News Blast – Feb 22, 2010

TODAY: Putin calls for evolution, not revolution; 4,000 protesters gather in Arkhangelsk; activist jailed for supporting YouTube policeman; Lavrov wants to revive the OSCE; Russia against Iran sanctions; illegal gambling and corruption; shooting r...
February 19, 2010

Medvedev’s Reorganization of the Regions

Brian Whitmore at the Power Vertical is blogging on Medvedev’s firing of two governors in energy-rich Siberian territories.  Other appointments may be on the way: So who else’s job is in jeopardy? Two Russian think tanks, the Inte...
February 19, 2010

Economic Crisis and Festering Resentment

Masha Lipman writes in the Washington Post on the recent protests staged in Irkutsk and Kaliningrad (Grigory Pasko has also covered the Lake Baikal story here). Control over mass-audience television enables the Kremlin to keep undesirable informat...
February 19, 2010

Energy Blast – Feb 19, 2010

President Dmitry Medvedev says Russia’s economy needs fundamental reform if it wants to reduce greenhouse gas emissions; the current goal is to reduce emissions by 25% of 1990 levels by 2020.  Shtokman Development might cancel its plans...
February 19, 2010

Today in Russian Business – Feb 19, 2010

On the decline of Rusal’s shares following its January IPO.  Efforts by the ‘Innovation Delegation‘ of officials and executives from the US to meet with Russian officials have suffered traffic delays and scheduling problems....
February 19, 2010

RA’s Daily Russian News Blast – Feb 19, 2010

TODAY: Russia to query Bulgaria on missile plans; UN report on Moscow’s secret prisons; Medvedev responds to public reaction over corrupt police; Stalin billboards divide the Duma; too late for green Sochi; gnome poster removed ahead of pres...
February 18, 2010

Medvedev Fires 18 Cops over Corruption

It’s been a pretty bad couple of months in corruption for the government of Dmitry Medvedev.  They beat to death the journalist Popov, fake investigations were opened against the YouTube whistleblower Dymovsky, and Jamison Firestone is ...
February 18, 2010

“Accidental Deaths” in Ingushetia

La Russophobe has published a translation from the NGO Memorial, detailing a botched armed attack by the Russian military which had claimed the lives of at least four civilians who had gone out walking in a valley to pick wild garlic: On February ...