Earlier today there were reports that Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has ordered the immediate formation of a government commission empowered to fight back against “false history.” It remains unclear exactly what these powers ...
Today CNN is running a report entitled “Russia’s bleak picture of health” which cites some scary Eberstadt-like statistics: average male lifespan of 60 years, some 50% of 18-year-olds who won’t reach retirement age, a...
With car sales down by almost 60% this year in Russia, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is making a big push to encourage citizens to buy locally produced automobiles, such as various models of the Lada brand. To help push the message, Putin pe...
In relation to my interview with Yelena Maglevannaya posted a moment ago, below we have some translated comments from a forum discussing the case. – G.P.
[Editor’s note: last week there were reports of a shocking story from Russia of a journalist, Yelena Maglevannaya, being convicted of libel for having written about alleged abuse and torture of one Chechen inmate. Today, our correspondent Gr...
Washington’s plans to install non-existent anti-ballistic missile technology into Poland and the Czech Republic in order to defend against non-existent Iranian missile technology has long been a sore point in the U.S.-Russia relationship.&nb...
Yesterday we wrote about the potential political influence in Germany that could be obtained through a majority stake in the struggling GM car company Opel (never mind that the last thing the Russian economy needs right now is more automotive manu...
Greg White at the Wall Street Journal has a gloomy outlook on the Russian economy today, and it looks like once again that Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin (who has been subpoenaed to appear at the Khodorkovsky trial) has found himself at war with o...
A blow to the Nabucco pipeline as the Iraqi government has rejected the $8 billion plan to export gas from Kurdistan. ‘I consider South Stream to have every chance of being realized earlier than Nabucco’, says Energy Minister Ser...
Economists are troubled by data showing that industrial output decreased by a record 16.9% year on year in April. Wage arrears have however fallen for the first time in four months. Goldman Sachs has said that GDP will contract more th...
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