CNN’s Eye on Russia series keeps churning out the good stuff… Richard Quest did not hesitate to question Alexander Medvedev directly on the use of Gazprom as a political weapon. See the latest evasive maneuvers below. Embed...
‘In principle we can come to the conclusion that we are on the verge of a crisis‘. Could a row about stockpiling lead to a new gas war between Russia and Ukraine? Prime Minister Vladimir Putin will meet his Ukrainian counte...
Russia’s international reserves rose $6.1 billion last week as the central bank bought foreign currency to slow the rise of the ruble as oil prices increase. The Moscow Times reports upon efforts to reduce Russia’s dependence upo...
TODAY: Russia expresses alarm at EU moves towards eastern Europe; US missile base could be met with Iskander missiles; corruption claims launched against the Other Russia; Gorbachev says democracy waning; air hostesses on hunger strike The BBC rep...
SCO summit against a background of torture Grigory Pasko, journalist I recently visited Yekaterinburg. The city is literally flooded with police in reflective vests. The word «security» is heard time and again on the streets. On the television, al...
More than a few conspiracy-minded observers like to talk about a big evil plan in the Kremlin to recreate the Soviet Union and annex its neighbors. The goal, they say, is to swallow up more territory and power while toppling any independent ...
CNN is currently doing an “Eye on Russia” series, with lots of interesting short videos posted online. Below is an interview with billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov, conducted with a full team of helmeted industrial technicians at com...
There exists in Russia a tension between the strong appetite of those in government to acquire control of more and more private companies, and the realities posed by the economic crisis. As Konstantin Sonin notes in his Moscow Times column, ...
Some quotes from Andrew Osborn’s piece in the Wall Street Journal on Russia’s new history commission. “One year ago Mr. Medvedev said he preferred freedom to non-freedom,” said Alexander Cherkasov of human-rights group Memo...
Big news today from Strasbourg. The European Court on Human Rights has admitted a complaint submitted by Mikhail Khodorkovsky, meaning that the court will hear arguments from the defense that his arrest, persecution, and trial by the Russian gover...
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