President Medvedev did not receive the wholehearted backing he had hoped for from Finnish countepart Tarja Halonen over the Nord Stream gas pipeline; the Finns feel that ‘an ecological question’ remains. Nonetheless Finland appar...
The number of unemployed in Russia has reached an eight-year high. Vladimir Potanin has reduced his stake in Norilsk Nickel to 25%. Potanin’s Rosa Khutor Sochi ski resort development has borrowed $94 million from state bank VEB.&...
TODAY: Medvedev tentative regarding US nuclear deal; Russia to boycott forthcoming NATO meeting?; early voting takes place in Sochi; ombudsman says human rights situation in Russia is static President Medvedev has expressed caution regarding Obama...
We recently had the opportunity to sit down with Anders Åslund, Senior Fellow at the Petersen Institute for International Economics, to discuss some of the most pressing issues in Russia affairs. In this exclusive interview segment, Åslund d...
This one comes from Lex over at FT.com … also see recent commentary on Russia’s debt problems from Yulia Latynina. Russian banks do not have the same US subprime-related toxic assets that laid low US and west European counterparts and ...
The Associated Press has a story running today about the release of a new human rights report by Ombudsman Vladimir Lukin, which focuses on the 28,000 complaints filed for alleged misconduct by the police. On the one hand, it is very interes...
There is an interesting op/ed in today’s Moscow Times by Michael Bohm, which disputes some that the goals of Strategy 2020 require no readjustment given the damage caused by the economic crisis. Naturally, our eyes our drawn to Bohm...
I just took a short globalization quiz over on Foreign Policy, and I saw the following question: #4. After China and the United States, which country emits the most carbon dioxide?a) Brazilb) Indiac) Russia I don’t mean to spoil the fun, but...
Azeri President Ilham Aliyev has said that he would like Russia to act as a transit route for Azerbaijan gas to Europe. Medvedev feels Gazprom has a ‘very high chance of entering into a full agreement’ on buying gas from Azerbaij...
According to a Forbes Russia report, Russia’s 100 richest people have lost around $380 billion in the past year. Oligarch Chalva Tchigirinski will sell $350million of personal assets to pay off debts to Sibir. Speculation that oi...
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