Andrei Nekrasov is a Russian documentary filmmaker whose work has often taken a sharply critical approach to the current government in Russia (including a Cannes-award winning doc on the Litvinenko case). He’s been published several ti...
It’s an interesting move for the Obama administration to propose the involvement of Russia in an alternative anti-ballistic missile shield effort, just two and a half weeks before the state visit to Moscow. On the one hand, Washington ...
Gazprom has announced it will delay the launch of the Bovanenkovo field on Siberia’s Yamal peninsula until the third quarter of 2012. Ukraine is looking for $4 billion in credit from Europe to buy Russian gas for its subterranean stora...
Apparently the BRIC nations did not make any comments on the dollar in their draft communique, but they may consider buying each other’s bonds and swapping currencies to decrease their dependence on it. China has offered a $10 billion ...
TODAY: SCO wraps up in blaze of activity; Medvedev calls BRIC ‘historic event’; no decision from US on defense system; German MPs agree Khodorkovsky trial is trial for Russian justice; Vaclev Havel speaks out against Russia For detaile...
With joblessness at a nine-year high and unemployment benefits capped at less than 5,000 rubles, the Kremlin are searching for cashless ways of curbing potential social unrest stemming from the continuing fallout from the financial crisis. T...
I don’t typically like spending a lot of time on stories that have more coverage by blogs than actual news outlets, but this one is really too juicy to pass up and it also continues our ongoing conversation about the dollar’s prominenc...
Reuters is reporting on the passage of a parliamentary motion from Chancellor Angela Merkel’s party (the CDU), as well as coalition partners in the SPD, which states that the trial of Mikhail Khodorkovsky will be observed from Berlin as a cr...
This week Russia is hosting the first summit of BRIC nations in Yekaterinburg, which is the third summit in a row in under a week – all of which do not include any participation of North American or Western European countries. It appea...
Some more shots are exchanged over the realism vs. liberalism issue. From Paul Goble’s Window on Eurasia: In an essay posted on Grani.ru today, Irina Pavlova points out that “the post-Soviet powers that be have done everything to...
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