The World Bank has a new report out with a pretty gloomy outlook on the Russian economy, as though the political burden weren’t already heavy enough on Alexei Kudrin’s shoulders. Moscow may be attempting to build a “new glo...
If you haven’t spent a whole evening in Moscow whiling away the hours and talking with friends over a bottle of fine vodka, then you haven’t yet had a real Russian experience. Unfortunately beyond the stereotypes, boisterous cele...
From Interfax: Russia’s ex-prime minister and leader of the Russian People’s Democratic Union Mikhail Kasyanov has claimed he is ready to appear as a witness in the trial of former head of the defunct oil company Yukos Mikhail Khodorko...
Everybody’s been reading all the exciting news of President Medvedev’s trip to Nigeria, and all the seemingly big energy deals he’s been signing (we’ll have more commentary on that later). But I would respectfully point out...
Total is willing to invite Gazprom to collaborate in Africa and elsewhere. Gazprom has hit out at the EU for allegedly discriminating against its gas pipeline projects, just two days before its meeting with Ukraine to discuss payment issues....
According to the Moscow Times, Russia’s inflation rate in 2009 will be far less than had originally been predicted. Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin is avoiding over-optimism, saying Russia will meet the target of 13%, although ‘ma...
TODAY: Politkovskaya suspects to be retried; NATO claims to be no rival to Russia; Medvedev says START negotiations still ongoing; extent of alcohol abuse deaths sends shockwaves; Duma speaker superhero Russia has announced that the three men who ...
One need not look further than today’s edition of the Times of London to find the degeneration of dialogue between Georgia and Russia. I will let the quotes speak for themselves… In an article headlined, “Vladimir Putin wants to ...
Garry Kasparov’s column in the Wall Street Journal today expounds on the significance of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s choice of Moscow as a good place to during the electoral turmoil to prove his international legitimacy. He argues that...
A recent post from our contributing editor El Maestro on a leaked EU report pinning some blame for the August invasion on Georgia has stirred up about 25 comments so far. If I knew that’s all everybody wanted to talk about, I wouldR...
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