The near-bankrupt Amur Shipbuilding Plant, employer to 15,000 people, has been ‘renationalized for a symbolic sum’ and will be heavily subsidized by the state. Talk of a revival in the Moscow property market has been supported by...
TODAY: Economic ties and energy on the agenda for Putin’s Japan meeting; no end to the stalemate in Georgia, fears of violence resurge; Obama visit to Russia in July; Medvedev undermines Constitutional Court freedoms Prime Minister Putin has...
Had everything gone according to plan, the president of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, would have spent the weekend visiting Brazil, Ecuador, and his close friends in Venezuela. However following a carefully worded warnin...
Fred Hiatt’s column in today’s Washington Post is titled “Dangerous Work in Moscow” – providing an interesting profile of Tanya Lokshina, the deputy director of Human Rights Watch in Moscow. Lokshina talks about...
This Financial Times editorial came across my email alerts last night, reminding us that somewhere along the line either the U.S. government or the media or both came up with this mythic assumption that talking to Russia about security issues beca...
Reuters is reporting that the new U.S. President will visit Russia on July 6-8. What do you want to be he gets to sign a replacement for the START treaty?
The EU and Turkey have come to an agreement on the Nabucco pipeline, which should give Europe a significant lift in its attempts to diversify gas supplies away from Russia. ‘This is a complete breakthrough’, a senior EU official ...
Reuters examines the pressure on car factory workers as the industry suffers and pay is slashed; the possibility of mass discontent is a ‘real risk’. Vladimir Putin has reportedly announced that ‘Canadian-Austrian company M...
TODAY: Victory Day parade and a stern warning from Russia; Putin suggests financial crisis will determine who is to run for President; NATO games prove a spanner in the works of US-Russia restart; ‘sorry’ not good enough for ex-Standar...
The following is a press release from Marieluise Beck, German Member of Parliament: On the first anniversary of Medvedev’s ascension to the post of Russian President, Marieluise Beck, MP, declares: Russia’s President Medvedev began his...
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