It’s nice to know the State Duma of the Russian Federation doesn’t have anything more important on its agenda… To be honest, when we read this report on the «Regnum.ru» information agency website, we first thought it was so...
Washington DC think tank Heritage Foundation has released a new report today containing “realistic policy proposals” for the administration of Barack Obama to address relations with Russia and strategy in Eurasia. The report is e...
Paul Goble points to an interesting comment by Vladimir Nadein points out in today’s Yezhednevny zhurnal. “Even Hitler,” even when it was obvious that he was losing the war “retained allies up to the end of 1944. But Putin,...
Pyotr Aven of Alfa Bank has given a pretty grim interview to the Financial Times, in which he predicts that overdue loans could hit some 15-20% of credit portfolios. The interview shows some signs of desperation over at Alfa, who is seeking ...
Economically speaking, according to some visions of the crisis… From Desmond Lachman in the Washington Post. Back in the spring of 1998, when Boris Yeltsin was still at Russia’s helm, I led a group of global investors to Moscow t...
RusAl is telling workers at its Bogoslovsky Aluminum Plant in Krasnoturyinsk that they must accept salary cuts of up to 30% if they do not want the plant to close. ‘The town will all die if they close the plant, but we will be forced t...
Economic Development Minister Elvira Nabiullina, under investigation for mismanaging state funds intended for high-tech startups, insists that diversification into technology will help Russia to emerge from the economic downturn. Russia̵...
TODAY: United Russia anti-crisis meeting; Britain and Russia ‘in harmony’ ahead of G20; Merkel calls for Russia-NATO cooperation, US emphasizes NATO’s importance; more candidates for Sochi elections; Britain unhappy with Russia&#...
The Financial Times has an editorial on next Wednesday’s first meeting between Barack Obama and Dmitry Medvedev. The two sides are now accelerating talks on a new strategic arms reduction treaty to replace Start 1 before it expires in Decemb...
On the face of it, Russia should be happy with the news that the EU and Ukraine have agreed a deal to modernize Ukraine’s aging gas pipeline infrastructure. The Russians themselves have complained for years that Ukraine has allowed the syste...
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