The Washington Post is running an editorial on the sale of the Mistral warship by France to Russia, despite Moscow’s open violation of the Sarkozy-brokered ceasefire agreement to end the Russia-Georgia war of 2008. It is a pretty tough...
Gazprom has started production of coal-bed methane – one of three increasingly popular unconventional sources of gas that are causing a ‘silent revolution‘ in the US energy market and changing the face of the global gas market &#...
Finans magazine has published details on Russia’s rich list, naming steel baron Vladimir Lisin (more on him here) as Russia’s richest man with $18.8 billion. Overall, the list is starting to favor ‘more traditional Russian ...
TODAY: Protesters gather in Baikalsk over fate of paper and pulp mill; Medvedev’s Khanty-Mansisk governor unanimously approved; official released from pretrial detention thanks to Duma guarantor; Russia should attract skilled foreigners; no ...
Russia’s ambassador to NATO, Dmitri Rogozin, has gotten himself a lot of press for his Twitter habits – were he a professional athlete in the NBA or NFL, he would probably be one of those guys who gets fined for it all the time. ...
The Baltic Sea, the site of Gazprom’s $10 billion Nord Stream pipeline project, is one of the world’s most highly polluted waters. Nonetheless, Finnish environmental authorities have given their approval for the project R...
Following Vladimir Putin’s dismissal of environmental concerns regarding the project, Finland’s environmental officials have given their approval for the Nord Stream pipeline – the final permit needed for the project, at which co...
Dmitry Medvedev’s commission to modernize the economy is calling on big business to contribute to ‘an innovative economy‘ with initiatives such as Mikhail Prokhorov’s low-budget car. The president is also pushing for ...
TODAY: Russia and Cuba praise association; Kaliningrad governor postpones meeting; gay and lesbian organizations file lawsuit in Europe; US-Russia relations are not easy; Kirov governor says modernization is beyond economy; Putin wishes luck for V...
The wonderful poet and writer Sasha Raduzhkevich, who left life early, once called everything taking place in Russia «the struggle of a struggle with a struggle». Indeed, in our country everything is a struggle: from evicting militants from the hi...
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