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August 12, 2013

RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – August 12, 2013

TODAY: International outrage over anti-gay law continues, protests in London and New York; Obama discusses current Russia rows as Lavrov meets with Kerry; Sobyanin will not debate with his rivals ahead of mayoral elections; Rosbank CEO detained. P...
August 12, 2013

RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – August 12, 2013

TODAY: International outrage over anti-gay law continues, protests in London and New York; Obama discusses current Russia rows as Lavrov meets with Kerry; Sobyanin will not debate with his rivals ahead of mayoral elections; Rosbank CEO detained. P...
August 7, 2013

RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – August 7, 2013

TODAY: U.S.-Russia meetings to go ahead as Obama raises spectre of Cold War; court cuts Khodorkovsky’s sentence by two months; spotlight on migrant workers; Politkovskaya witnesses to be questioned in private; dissident priest stabbed; gasoline, s...
August 7, 2013

RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – August 7, 2013

TODAY: U.S.-Russia meetings to go ahead as Obama raises spectre of Cold War; court cuts Khodorkovsky’s sentence by two months; spotlight on migrant workers; Politkovskaya witnesses to be questioned in private; dissident priest stabbed; gasoline, s...
August 2, 2013

QOTD

“I think the most ridiculous questions come up during the decay of an empire,” said Anton Krasovsky, a prominent Russian journalist recently fired for being gay, when asked why the “gay question” had suddenly emerged in Russia. “It’s like when Jud...
July 31, 2013

RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – July 31, 2013

TODAY: Potash price war feared after Uralkali leaves cartel; Memorial slams sexist proposal; over 1,000 migrant workers arrested over brawl; Sobyanin may forego pre-election debate; BP earns less from Rosneft than TNK-BP; new trade war with Ukrain...
July 31, 2013

RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – July 31, 2013

TODAY: Potash price war feared after Uralkali leaves cartel; Memorial slams sexist proposal; over 1,000 migrant workers arrested over brawl; Sobyanin may forego pre-election debate; BP earns less from Rosneft than TNK-BP; new trade war with Ukrain...
July 27, 2013

Vodka, Beauty Contests, Gossip

How specifically galling that Pussy Riot member Nadezhda Tolokonnikova has been denied parole, despite having completed half of her sentence, on the grounds that she refused to take part in a prison beauty contest (as reported by The Times this we...
July 27, 2013

Vodka, Beauty Contests, Gossip

How specifically galling that Pussy Riot member Nadezhda Tolokonnikova has been denied parole, despite having completed half of her sentence, on the grounds that she refused to take part in a prison beauty contest (as reported by The Times this we...
July 27, 2013

The curious case of Alexei Navalny

Despite having been targeted by the Kremlin and ordered to register as a ‘foreign agent’ in May, the Levada Centre has remained as unbiased as ever, conducting polls on gay rights, government spending, and the upcoming Moscow elections with politi...