The Interior Ministry’s $755,900 tender for luxury furniture including a 24-carat gold painted bed has raised outcry among ordinary Russians losing sleep over money worries. The bond is apparently part of a cost-crunching drive, to sav...
TODAY: Medvedev admits terrorists have strong hand in Caucasus; proposes sidestepping trial by jury for special cases; technological breakthrough to solve missile defence situation? Ukraine-Russia issues still making waves; church reacts on ...
Diane Francis, columnist at the Financial Post, wrote up a short column about the Eligio Cedeño case in Venezuela interviewing Robert Amsterdam, making mention of the Rusoro controversy, which has a Russia-related angle. “Venezuela said it w...
During the first Vladimir Putin all-nude-revue extravaganza, we dutifully posted plenty of the photos with acerbic commentary. The second time around, not so much. Been there, done that. I trust that the readers of this blog were...
As U.S. President Barack Obama looks to bet his presidency by actually doing something about the deplorable, non-functioning healthcare market, he’s facing an angry and implacable opposition from the Republicans, who are even fond of sending...
Writing in the Columbia Journalism Review, Joshua Foust, who also blogs on Central Asia at Registan.net, takes a look at the lobbying, PR, and information war going on between Russia and Georgia, and finds that Tbilisi is more or less winning the ...
Have you noticed things a little lighter here at RA lately? You’re not imaging it. Bob is currently spending some quality time with the family before his very existence slips the minds of his daughters, while I have been assigned...
According to Bloomberg, although Russian oil production increased this year, defying forecasts, it will inevitably decrease due to the slump in investment when crude prices dropped. Novatek has reported a 1.6% increase in net profit in the s...
Following the deadly Sayano-Shushenskaya accident, Rusal could lose up to as much as 500,000 tons of aluminium production, which is equal to around 11% of 2008’s output. It is expected that energy tariffs will increase in winter for &#...
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