The plan drawn up by the UN to regulate Iran’s uranium development seems to be hitting obstacles: according to the Observer, a senior UN official has rejected a proposal to send uranium abroad for enrichment. Apparently President Medve...
At the G20 finance summit in St Andrews, the problem of unemployment was raised as well as ‘uneven growth’; Russian Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin has said that ‘exit strategies’ will have to be considered. Kudrin app...
TODAY: Policeman loses job after flagging up police corruption on Youtube address to Putin; Rusal harassing the press?; personal grudge alleged motive for Markelov murder; Moscow rights groups could lose premises. Berlin wall collapse annive...
Today, an important Russian business leader is giving a speech that we have obtained an advanced copy of and that we are happy to provide to our readers. Transcript is accessible at the following link: 2009Nov06.Igor.Yurgens.Elliott-Lecture.pdf
Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov is apparently ‘astonished’ to hear that Poland’s Foreign Minister, Radoslaw Sikorski, asked NATO and the US to deploy troops in Europe to provide ‘some strategic reassuranceR...
Details are beginning to emerge about the the two suspects held on suspicion of gunning down fearless human rights lawyer Stanislav Markelov and Novaya Gazeta intern Anastasia Baburova on January 19th this year. It appears that one of the pa...
Apparently U.N. inspectors have found ‘nothing to be worried about‘ upon their first examination of the formerly clandestine uranium enrichment site in Qom in Iran. ‘The [Obama] administration must consider whether it makes...
‘We will have to take into account this style of dealing with partners in the future, though this scornful approach toward partners mainly affects the Europeans, not us’: Putin reacts to the aborted GM deal. Finance Minist...
TODAY: Markelov murder suspect reportedly confesses; vengeance a possible motive? Activist abducted in Moscow. Spy chief issues warning on Georgia; Lavrov surprised at Poland soliciting US help. Medvedev reserves army use for eme...
Ariel Cohen and Richard Ericson have a new paper discussing Russia’s economic crisis and its relations with the United States. I would encourage reading this paper in full as it hits on all the major factors relevant to Russia’s econom...
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