As expected, Eni and Gazprom have signed an agreement authorizing EdF to join the South Stream pipeline, with conditions to be outlined in the coming months. The central bank is considering various measures to discourage an inflow of specula...
President Dmitry Medvedev signed no less than nineteen business deals, in the automobile, aviation, banking, and energy sectors, during his trip to Rome. Steel and mining giant Evraz is seeking measures to deal with ‘staggering debt...
TODAY: Putin Q&A dominates press, hints at return to presidency; Medvedev establishes diplomatic relations with the Vatican; NATO and Russia working through problems; Lukashenko acknowledges reliance on Russia; hackers destroy tabloid archives...
The Associated Press has obtained exclusive access to a series of letters written by Sergei Magnitsky, the Hermitage lawyer who died in prison after being denied medical treatment, to his mother. Heartbreaking reading. Nataliya Magnitskaya s...
“One of the key elements of our work in the next four years will be ensuring the independence of our legal system from the executive and legislative branches of power.” – Dmitry Medvedev, Feb. 24, 2008 “Russia should be a d...
I usually don’t bother running RT videos, but this one has some highlights. I hold occasional doubts about the information quality behind STRATFOR’s Russia analysis (they are heavy on the rumors), but Friedman is one of the few w...
Dmitry Medvedev is in Rome to oversee the signing of an agreement between Gazprom, Eni, and EdF for the South Stream natural gas pipeline, set to open at the end of 2015. Transneft says that a hundred-ton oil spill ‘will not affect oil...
The new Sochi Winter Olympics logo is ‘clean, forward-looking, transparent — everything that perhaps Russia should be, but isn’t. But hey, that’s branding.‘ The Finance Ministry has proposed to limit significant...
TODAY: Russian judges resign over inability to perform their jobs in ‘ruined’ legal system; top courts shooting for transparency; media giants at war; Putin’s Q&A on air today, focused on terrorism and economy as Chechens cla...
Ranking at number 8, I will let Joshua Keating’s words speak for themselves: The world was shocked in July by the murder of human rights activist Natalya Estemirova in Chechnya. Suspicions immediately focused on the Chechen Kremlin-backed st...
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