Memorial, fresh on the heels of an insulting lawsuit from Chechen leader Ramzan Kadryrov, holds a rally to commemorate slain journalist Anna Politkovskaya today: Hundreds of people are rallying in Moscow on the third anniversary of the killing of ...
Russia has denied yesterday’s report in the Independent that the country discussed changing the dollar as the global currency of oil; France has called it speculation. Iran’s finance minister Shamseddin Hosseini says he has occas...
At the International Nanotechnology Forum, President Medvedev announced that the global nanotechnology market is worth $250 billion today, and may increase to $2 trillion to $3 trillion by 2015, placing it on a par with the natural resources marke...
TODAY: Third anniversary of the killing of Anna Politkovskaya; Kadyrov wins his lawsuit against Memorial, launches another. Gay marriage bid rejected; critical posters displayed around Moscow. Medvedev gets his new speech writer; no in...
Irina Fet and Irina Shipitko are a lesbian couple looking to change public perceptions in Russia by succeeding in getting the country’s first legal gay marriage … however the latest court decision has swiftly dismissed their request.&n...
Writing in the Moscow Times, Vadim Klyuvgant, the lead trial lawyer in the Khodorkovsky case, points out that as long as there are cases of abuse like those of Antonio Valdez-Garcia and Vasily Aleksanyan, the plea bargain changes to Russia’s...
The Independent reports that Gulf Arab states have been engaged in secret talks with Russia, China, Japan and France to replace the US dollar with a basket of currencies in the trading of oil: ‘This sounds like a dangerous prediction o...
Russia’s economy shrank at the slowest monthly pace this year in September. Apparently the Lada has become the quickest growing car brand in Germany since the fall of the Berlin Wall, spurred on by Merkel’s cash-for-scrap program...
TODAY: Iran uranium plan waiting to be concluded; Russia backs Serbia on Kosovo; Lavrov exit denied; Ingushetian cabinet out. Ex-US Yukos unit to launch mammoth lawsuit; picketed journalist gets unlikely defender; UN says Russia should impro...
From that ever-fascinating world of academic studies on Russia-Chinese relations comes a new report of the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs. Author Geir Flikke spent the summer of 2009 with a research grant from Norway’s Mi...
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