In the first six months of the year the budget deficit grew to the equivalent of 4.2% of GDP. The Central Bank has cut interest rates again, for the fourth time in three months. The Moscow Times has a rather bleak prognosis of the econ...
TODAY: Medvedev suggests another turnaround on WTO?; reserve currency symbolically showcased. FBI to be in on Klebnikov investigation; knock-on effects of Cherkizovsky market closure President Medvedev has announced at a post-G8 press conference h...
Yesterday afternoon Robert Amsterdam was interviewed on Air America radio by host Montel Williams on a range of issues, including the recent coup in Honduras and the recently published White Paper on the Eligio Cedeño case in Venezuela.
Charles Krauthammer at the Washington Post is catching a lot of flak for his article today which argued that Obama’s reset diplomacy with Russia and the new agreements to cut nuclear stockpiles was somehow a gesture of capitulation, selling ...
Matthew Chance on CNN gets right to the point in this interview with Pepsico CEO Indra Nooyi – will doing business in Russia mean getting involved in bribery and corruption? After all, the poor climate for transparency led Ikea to thro...
Alan Cowell has an interesting piece in the New York Times today: In some of the same lands described by President George W. Bush as an axis of evil, the Obama administration confronts an arc of obduracy from Pyongyang to Tehran. The riddle persis...
Leon Aron at the American Enterprise Institute has a new brief out on Russia following the Summit. Here’s just one section from the report on the use of anti-American propaganda by the Kremlin. The Kremlin’s valiant defense of Ru...
Russia may have sidestepped greenhouse gas emission cuts at the G8 summit, but Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin has pledged a Russian ‘energy revolution’ when the State Duma consider a bill to increase energy efficiency by 40% by 2020.&n...
President Medvedev’s economic aide, Arkady Dvorkovich, has said that Russia is contemplating joining the WTO either in a customs union with Kazakhstan and Belarus, or simultaneously, as individual states, but on the same conditions. A ...
TODAY: ‘True partnership’ hoped for between Russia and US; Russia wants second airbase in Kyrgyzstan. Planes edging into British airspace, deemed ‘unfriendly’ by Commons; Russia warns Japan on Kurils. Is the sep...
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