Dangers Of Dissent
A Dissenter’s march in Russia wouldn’t be a Dissenter’s march if it didn’t end in large-scale detentions. Saturday night’s march was no different, with up to 50 protesters allegedly held. Thanks to la Russ...
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Gas Crisis Cooling Down?
Winter is upon us, and the last couple of days have seen rumors rumbling about the possibility of another gas interruption – due to payment problems at Ukraine’s end. It is alleged that Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko a...
Energy Blast – Nov 4, 2009
Russia is planning to contribute $6.5 million to the IAEA Nuclear Security Fund in 2010-2015, the fund which supports, among others things, the use of nuclear security measures to counter nuclear terrorism. Satellite photos apparently sugges...
Today in Russian Business – Nov 4, 2009
After months of painstaking negotiations, GM has scrapped the Opel sale on the basis that it was ‘no longer in the best interests of GM, now that the environment for car sales has started to improve’, reports the Independent. The...
RA’s Daily Russian News Blast – Nov 4, 2009
TODAY: Activist lawyer faces stripping of status; Lyudmila Alekseyeva to receive German award; Tsibili to name street after Politkovskaya; Gorbachev and Havel reminisce; new poll shows generation gap; extremism on the up; Medvedev cracks dow...
If You Can’t Beat Them, Copy Them
Many commentators have been wondering in recent times exactly how the President plans to realise the reforms of the ‘Go Russia’ ilk. One can look at Macha Lipman on the issue of re-Stalinisation in the Washington Post today ...
Will Russia Deliver On Iran?
Today’s POLITICUS in the New York Times tries to fathom the extent to which NATO and the Western powers really trust Russia to cooperate in putting pressure on Iran, regarding its nuclear programme. Whilst certain recent moves by the W...
Russia Won’t Budge On Extradition
The delicate issue of human rights seemed to be, from the very outset, implicated in David Miliband’s ice-breaking trip to Moscow. The trip coincided with the third anniversary of the death of Kremlin critic and ex-KGB man Alexander Li...
Energy Blast – Nov 3, 2009
Russia has reached a new record high in monthly oil production, at more than ten million barrels a day in October, maintaining its position as the world’s biggest oil producer. Rosneft is at the forefront of the increase with productio...
Today in Russian Business – Nov 3, 2009
Jason Bush in Forbes suggests that Russia’s recovery may be buoyant: ‘while the Russian government is still cautiously forecasting 2 percent GDP growth in 2010, many independent economists are already predicting growth of as much as 5 ...