VEB, which holds a blocking state in Vimpelcom, will apparently agree to the merger of the mobile operator with Ukrainian company Kyivstar. Car sales in Russia fell 52% in September year-on-year, a slight improvement on August’s drop o...
TODAY: Upbeat feeling ahead of Clinton visit; dates confirmed; nuclear on the agenda. Flights of US supplies to Afghanistan commence; bilateral ties with China to be strengthened by flurry of deals. Stalin’s grandson’s Novaya Gaz...
GDF Suez hopes to see talks to join the Nord Stream pipeline concluded by the end of the year. Statoil Hydro has commented that a drop in gas prices is precipitating a rush among power operators to switch to the fuel, meaning demand is recov...
Reuters has a feature on the nanotechnology surge; Rusnano head Anatoly Chubais sees the crisis as an opportunity to drive the economy away from oil and gas. Chubais has apparently said that Russia’s Moscow Bank may create an innovatio...
TODAY: Politkovskaya tributes – persistence and pessimism; sectioned rights activist to take case to Strasbourg court; United Russia demands Kremlin human rights council apology on Nashi. Lavrov positive on new missile defense plan; Vi...
I recently found myself at a rather uneventful conference near the border of the world’s newest nation – at least in the eyes of the Kremlin as well as two other Latin American statesmen with high degrees of interest and knowledge of t...
It’s hard to know what to think of the latest cabinet shuffle in Dmitry Medvedev’s Kremlin – it certainly falls short of the kind of blockbuster moves like Putin used to pull which would keep us talking for weeks (everybody remem...
Author, journalist, and blogger Steve LeVine has just punched a new article about the rapprochement between Turkey and Armenia … yet according to his Facebook feed, he is not being allowed to link to his own blog, as several FB users have is...
K. Anthony Appiah of Princeton University and PEN American has an op/ed on the Politkovskaya anniversary published in the Washington Post today: Russia no longer needs gulags to silence the opposition. The punishment for drawing attention to the s...
Reporters without Borders, an international press freedom watchdog group, has been suddenly and unexpectedly stripped of their travel visas to attend an event to honor Anna Politkovskaya and screen a new documentary. I first caught this news...
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