Tonight in Leipzig, Germany, Gidon Kremer and the Kremerata Baltica under conductor Roman Kofman will perform the German premiere of Arvo Pärt’s “4th Symphony” in dedication to Mikhail Khodorkovsky, as well as the “Silent P...
In the New York Times Ellen Barry writes about the outcry among academics St Peterbsurg University (alma mater of Putin and Medvedev) who are concerned about new legislation that may require their work to be submitted to the authorities before it ...
A new World Bank report says that Russia is likely to bear the brunt of changes to regional climate brought on by global warming. Gazprom, currently feuding with Rosneft over blocked access to energy infrastructure, may rework...
Itar-Tass reports that the office of Russian First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov denied a report that the government has approved the laying off of 20,000 AvtoVAZ workers, but the Moscow Times suggests that Shuvalov is trying to li...
TODAY: Markelov’s assassins to be arrested? Stalin monument reports ‘baseless’; UK and Russia to try and mend relations; Russia not supplying Iran with missiles; abstinence-based AIDS strategy not working; nuclear spaceship...
There’s a very interesting article on euobserver.com about Russia’s attempts to re-brand itself as a benign global power in the eyes of Brussels. The piece reports that news agency Ria-Novosti has apparently engaged the services ...
Tracing the policy movements of Presidential power-handler Vladislav Surkov is rather like witnessing a three-point turn in a dark alley – as a piece in the Power Vertical points out today. Whilst transparency is the last thing once ca...
It’s been less than a week since valiant Russian human rights groups Memorial won Europe’s llustrious human rights award, the Sakharov Prize, but it seems that Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov is determined to pull the plug on any cele...
Rosneft has been fined $180 million by the Federal Anti-Monopoly Service for deliberately driving up wholesale prices for gasoline and other oil products in the first half of 2009, and Lukoil was warned that it could face a similar penalty…i...
Inflation rates are falling, and prices haven’t gone up since July. This is largely due to crisis-related changes in consumer habits, says the Economic Development Ministry, and analysts support this conclusion, documented in more deta...
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