Global Finance Magazine has just released its annual league table of the biggest emerging market banks ranked by total assets. Russia’s entries: 8. Sberbank 19. VTB Bank 39. Gazprombank 111. Bank of Moscow 113. Alfa Bank 124. Russian Agricul...
The following is an excerpt from my latest article published on the Huffington Post: When a leader is ill and absent, a country cannot function, and for Nigeria, the costs have been very high. Yar’Adua’s illness has prevented him from ...
The Economist reports on the first two days of the Copenhagen summit. Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko has reissued his appeal for a drastic review of his country’s 10-year natural gas contract with Russia, making reference to ...
President Dmitry Medvedev, speaking at the European and Asian media forum, said funds had been allocated so that Russia could switch to digital broadcasting by 2015. A presidential aide has insisted that mortgage lending will not be restored...
TODAY: Perm administration resigns as death toll rises to 128; Medvedev warns journalists about how to tell the truth; Russia blocking European Court of Human Rights reforms; Medvedev to be given authority over deploying troops?; START treaty almo...
So the big news in energy politics today is that the Gas Exporting Countries Forum (GECF) has appointed a secretary general for the first time. Guess what?? He’s Russian, and is employed at a company indirectly owned by Gennady T...
Russia’s vast, beautiful woodlands are indeed a national treasure, symbolizing the rugged solitude and simple happiness of the collective imagination. Like in Leonid Filatov’s fairy tale of Fedot the Archer, we all dream of getti...
From an article in the Canadian magazine Macleans: For Medvedev, freeing Khodorkovsky, currently imprisoned in a Siberian work camp, could have signalled the fundamental philosophical and political shift he says he is committed to making. It could...
We have been noticing quite a lot of news stories on the influx of heroin from Afghanistan into Russia in recent months, and the debate over the state’s policies to treat addiction. There seems to some level of debate over whether or n...
Almost exactly two years ago we released a series of videos leaked to us by Lev Ponomarev and others on YouTube documenting the range of human rights abuses in Russian prisons (one of the videos was even removed temporarily by the censors, a story...
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