The first ever visit by a Russian President to Serbia has yielded another ‘strategic partnership’, this time soldered with a $1.5 billion loan to the debt-hit nation. A certain diplomatic interdependence between the two countries...
Today’s news has seen upbeat reports about Russia’s economy waving goodbye to the crisis, with Alexei Kudrin breaking the good news of a possible ‘exit’ from the depression, reporting strong third quarter growth (this growt...
Luke Harding has two pieces on Russian climate change in today’s Guardian: an audio report on Northern-Siberia’s seasonal shifts, and a special report on the Yamal peninsula. Rumors abound that China, Japan, Russia and France hav...
Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin says Russia exited the recession in the last quarter (largely thanks to increased commodity demand and high oil prices), and analysts are speculating that Russia’s ruble is approaching free floating currency st...
TODAY: Medvedev approves loan for Serbia; Press Freedom Index sees Russia’s standards slump; U.S. says Russia isn’t complying with Georgian cease-fire; Duma walkout deputies ‘might’ be docked for missed sessions; Yukos hear...
Press festival in Dagomys Grigory Pasko, journalist Approximately a thousand journalists from all corners of Russia gathered recently in Dagomys – a little resort town not far from Sochi – in order to take part in the 14th festival «Al...
The Gazprom tower, which threatens to imperil St Petersburg’s UNESCO heritage status, has been the subject of several public protests of late and, as you may remember, some imaginative headlines. Now the project seems to have enc...
Spins on the Putin/Medvedev relationship are a mainstay of Russia reporting, but RFE/RL are coming at the diarchy analyses from a new angle today with a recourse to Russian history. Whilst talk abounds on the likelihood of Putin...
From Richard Lourie in the Moscow Times: Oleg Mitvol, prefect for the Northern Administrative District, pressured the restaurant to change its name, himself under pressure from veterans who found the name “insulting to the history of our cou...
‘Today’s price of around $70 a barrel is increasingly viewed as a new floor for the [oil] industry.‘ Perhaps the reason why Russia is wary of coordinating production limits with OPEC can be explained by the success achieve ...
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