President Dmitry Medvedev was one of the first world leaders to leave the Copenhagen climate change summit, after giving a speech indicating that Russia was a world leader in emissions cuts. ‘The true business consequences of Copenhage...
A new bill will prohibit federal television channels from signing agreements with advertising houses whose market share exceeds 35% – a move that will particularly affect Video International, which has faced accusations in the rece...
TODAY: Russia to control names of non-profit-organizations; Putin offers services to national judo team; no new START treaty until February; Medvedev as Robin Hood?; Stalin’s grandson sues radio station; Perm death toll up; Gaidar funeral.&n...
Writing at Time Magazine, Carl Schreck, a journalist we usually see writing at the National, has a piece on the proliferation of corporate raiding by government agencies and the private groups which control them – filling the jails with busi...
Mikhail Zygar has an interesting piece openDemocracy on the Russian government’s moves to monitor, control, and at times censor information published on the internet … a task that turns out to be much harder that the Kremlin’s ta...
Cathy Young has a good piece today in the Boston Herald on the Sakharov prize being awarded to the Russian human rights group Memorial: The treatment of Sakharov’s legacy in Russia today brings to mind the adage that there is no prophet in h...
I don’t have the slightest grounds to love Tokyo. That’s certain courts that for some reason liked a story concocted by the FSB about how I – am a Japanese spy. But the Japanese officially repudiated all court decisions relative ...
Fred Weir has a very interesting take on the second trial of Mikhail Khodorkovsky published in the Christian Science Monitor: “It looks like Putin is pathologically afraid of Khodorkovsky,” says Boris Nemtsov, a former deputy prime min...
A Kremlin aide says Russia will contribute $200 million to a multibillion-dollar fund to support poor nations, but won’t sign a successor to the Kyoto Protocol to cut emissions by 25% unless other major carbon dioxide emitters also agree to ...
Bloomberg reports that Rusal’s application to have its IPO on the Hong Kong stock exchange has received conditional approval, but other reports indicate that a Hong Kong Commission wants to limit the IPO sale to institutions, preventing priv...
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