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November 18, 2009

Energy Blast – Nov 18, 2009

In spite of recent measures taken to avoid more EU gas disruptions this winter, and a new Russia-EU partnership set to be discussed in detail at this week’s Stockholm summit, Slovakia’s Prime Minister can’t see Kiev being ab...
November 18, 2009

Today in Russian Business – Nov 18, 2009

A new trade agreement between Russia and the EU could examine whether trade barriers set up in response to the global crisis are damaging economic relations. The two bodies have launched a joint patent program to strengthen Russian intellectual pr...
November 18, 2009

RA’s Daily Russian News Blast – Nov 18, 2009

TODAY: Medvedev in Stockholm for EU-Russia summit; Transparency International laments Russia’s rampant bribery; protesters call for Beketov investigation and release of Limonov; tax claim against British Council thrown out; ultranationalist-...
November 17, 2009

Rogozin vs. Sikorski

A while back we pointed to the Twitter feed of Russia’s Amb. to NATO Dmitry Rogozin.  Today it looks like he has launched a personal assault on Radoslav Sikorski, the Polish MFA (everybody is just so prickly around this Berlin Wall anni...
November 17, 2009

Vaclav Havel Warns about Russia’s Democratic Façade

We could’ve guessed from the letter he signed earlier this year that the Czech luminary/dissident Vaclav Havel was not done talking about the authoritarian drift in Russia.  The Telegraph reports on his speech before a rally commemorati...
November 17, 2009

The Death of an Innocent Lawyer

Throughout the day new reports have been published on the death of Sergey Magnitskiy, the imprisoned Russian lawyer who had worked for William Browder and Hermitage Capital Management.  Some interesting quotes have come up so far, like this o...
November 17, 2009

Medvedev’s Alternative Vision Light as a Feather

Adrian Pabst, an academic from the University of Kent, has a well written if not entirely surprising opinion article in The National arguing that a real separation emerging between the Medvedev and Putin camps – “a growing split within...
November 17, 2009

The Gas Comics: EU Sells Out Human Rights to Turkmenistan

You’ve got to respect Global Witness … for a watchdog NGO, they bring a lot of creativity and innovation to their cause (see this past campaign for another example).  GW has also done a tremendous job in the past unearthing all th...
November 17, 2009

Activist Murdered in Moscow

Ivan Khutorskoy, an anti-fascist activist, has been murdered by gunfire in Moscow today in what some colleagues are calling a possible retaliation.  According to the Reuters coverage, the murder may have been related to the arrests of individ...