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June 4, 2013

RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – June 4, 2013

TODAY: Politkovskaya suspects on trial again; gay rights activist calls for tolerance in wake of murders; Moscow mayor may run for early re-election;  Labour Code restricts outsourcing; E.U.-Russia Summit begins; Gazprom courting local providers. ...
June 4, 2013

RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – June 4, 2013

TODAY: Politkovskaya suspects on trial again; gay rights activist calls for tolerance in wake of murders; Moscow mayor may run for early re-election;  Labour Code restricts outsourcing; E.U.-Russia Summit begins; Gazprom courting local providers. ...
June 3, 2013

RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – June 3, 2013

TODAY: Russia to ban adoptions by same-sex couples; Pussy Riot members ends hunger strike; freedom of assembly protesters detained; Russian Railways joint venture; Putin rebukes governor; U.S. delegation discusses security and Boston bombing; nucl...
June 3, 2013

RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – June 3, 2013

TODAY: Russia to ban adoptions by same-sex couples; Pussy Riot members ends hunger strike; freedom of assembly protesters detained; Russian Railways joint venture; Putin rebukes governor; U.S. delegation discusses security and Boston bombing; nucl...
May 31, 2013

QOTD

“A problem with Russian politics is that so much of it happens in one man’s head.”
May 31, 2013

QOTD

“A problem with Russian politics is that so much of it happens in one man’s head.”
May 31, 2013

RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – May 31, 2013

TODAY: Guriev discusses political pressure, says he will not return; fears of liberal brain drain; academics fear ‘foreign agent’ label will damage economic research; Levada Center refusing foreign grants; Belousov chosen as new Putin adviser; Lav...
May 29, 2013

Information Wars

Social network VKontakte, the largest in Europe with almost 200 million users as of last year, was put on a Kremlin blacklist ‘by accident’ last week.  It seems impossible that there could have been anything accidental about it, given the litany o...
May 29, 2013

RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – May 29, 2013

TODAY: Top economic adviser flees country; Pussy Riot hunger striker hospitalised; 23-fold income increase for drugs official; Vkontakte share sale linked to raid; Russia to supply Syria with missile shields, criticises EU for suspending embargo o...
May 28, 2013

RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – May 28, 2013

TODAY: VKontakte ordered to remove group pages; population decline reversing? Nabucco pipeline threatened by South Stream; Borodin money-laundering case; anti-corruption wishlist; Putin in Bishkek for CTSO meetings; Olympic conference convenes; Ar...