Andrei Piontkovsky shares his opinions – and his alone – about the motivations behind the second trial of Mikhail Khodorkovsky. He says that it functions as a kind of insurance policy to keep President Dmitry Medvedev reigned in ...
A country that still hasn’t come back home from the war By Grigory Pasko, journalist “…The wizard in the light-blue helicopter has already arrived, the helicopter turned out to be military.” – Viktor Shenderovich. * *...
I am reading a lot about the events in Iran this week, and I thought this piece by Charles Kurzman in Foreign Policy cut through the fog, reminding us of the cottage industry of punditry that clouds and rarely enhances our understanding of these i...
Dmitry Medvedev and his Chinese counterpart Hu Jintao have signed a memorandum of understanding to cooperate in natural gas, which may lead to Gazprom taking out a loan from China to deliver LNG. Russia has delayed plans to build pipelines t...
Deputy Finance Minister Sergei Shatalov says there will be no tax raises on individual incomes during the crisis, but the government plans to introduce an increase on gas extraction tax for businesses. The Moscow Times looks the construction...
TODAY: Wide-ranging talks with China conclude; opinion argues Russia the weak link in BRIC; milk war with Belarus over, but gas battle to begin?; NGO law reforms presented; extradition of Chichvarkin demanded The ‘friendly, constructiv...
Some key stats that Bloomberg uncovers in what must be the 800th article in the past 48 hours with the word “BRIC” in it: Dollar bonds sold by China earned 11.4 percent in the past year, more than double the 4.6 percent for debt in yua...
While Russian government officials parse the ins and outs of dollar diplomacy, Kazakh Central Bank Governor Grigory Marchenko said in no uncertain terms in London today that Kazakhstan is a ready buyer of dollars for at least the rest of the year....
Not that I needed to add one more article to the growing pile of opinions separating Russia from Brazil, China, and India, but the logic in this one was a little hard to follow: “It was incredibly surprising to us how quickly people had aban...
There was talk last year, during the initial heat of the financial crisis, that Russia’s four Las Vegas-style gambling zones would not go ahead, due to concerns over how they were going to be funded. Despite attempts by the Ministry of...
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