Energy Blast – April 23, 2009
‘Great attention’ will apparently be paid ‘to the issue of energy cooperation’ in today’s meeting between Dmitry Medvedev and Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan. The ‘climate doctrine’ drawn up by Rus...
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Today in Russian Business – April 23, 2009
The IMF has predicted that Russia’s economy will contract by up to 6% this year, but will grow by 0.5% in 2010. Putin has drawn up new proposals for recapitalizing the banking sector and has said that a gradual slowing of inflation wil...
RA’s Daily Russian News Blast – April 23, 2009
TODAY: Sergei Lavrov opens talks in Pyongyang; Russians skeptical about Medvedev’s level of power; Medvedev’s blog flooded with comments; PM to have access to state secrets?; Siberia sells ‘anti-democracy’ truckForeign Mini...
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NGOs Appeal to Medvedev over Khodorkovsky Trial
Today a press conference was held in Washington DC to announce the presentation of a letter to Russian President Dmitry Medvedev signed by eight prestigious human rights NGOs, including Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, Human Rights First...
Kissinger on Obama’s Concert Diplomacy
Henry Kissinger writes on the Obama Administration’s foreign policy today in the Washington Post, and, as usual, he frames most relationships under the aegis of realism (including all the assumptions of rational agency). Though more ab...
Crisis-hit Car Thieves Have Less to Steal in Russia
The market moves in mysterious ways. This one comes from the Compass blog over at Real Clear World: Even car thieves are now adjusting – there are more and more old Soviet and Russian-made sedans stolen on the streets than ever before....
Turkmenistan vs. the Gas Cartel
What happens when the largest exporter of natural gas in Central Asia (and the fourth largest reserves on the planet) declares its open disagreement with the Russia-led natural gas OPEC? At the very least, it makes for an energy conference o...
In Russia, the Internet is a “Strategic” Sector
We’ve written before on this blog about the Russian government’s declaration of “strategic sectors” in the economy, which is another way of saying that they are open game for state intervention, and foreign participation wi...
Bakhmina’s Parole and the Glass Half Full
The Other Russia has posted some translations of reactions to the parole of Yukos lawyer and mother of three Svetlana Bakhmina, including commentary from Lev Ponomarev, Valentina Melnikova, and Grigory Chkhartishvili (Boris Akunin). Be...