The Economic Development Ministry has revealed that Russia’s economy shrank 8% in the first two months of the year. Is Russia looking at a five-year recovery? ‘Russia’s domestic policy is constantly at odds with its e...
TODAY: Murmansk mayor leaves his post over rumors of Kremlin clampdown; Lavrov calls NATO dealings in former Soviet states ‘unfair’; Poland says missile agreement was a risk; Shuvalov doubtful over G20; Russia trying to win back ex-pat...
A great story on one of Russia’s greatest lawyers, Stanislav Markelov, on the front page of the Wall Street Journal today. In Russia, lawyers who defend the weak can find themselves on the firing line. Mr. Markelov’s murder contrasts s...
From the Financial Times: Mr McCain was equally emollient on Mr Obama’s soft-pedalling approach to Russia, in spite of bouts of near cold war rhetoric during the campaign (“We are all Georgians now”). This month, Hillary Clinton,...
Today over on Venezuela Report, my somewhat-new blog on the Russia of Latin America, I have a short post up about the sophisticated propaganda networks used by the government to attack its opponents through the media – frequently featuring i...
Russia’s worsening problems of hate crime and racially-motivated killings have been well-documented in recent weeks. Which makes this story all the more depressing. A new Obama-themed ice-cream advertisement – of dubious ta...
It looks like the EU is going to need all the help it can get in the way of energy security, if new reports from Ukraine’s RosUkrEnergo are anything to go by. The company has just announced that Ukraine’s worsening financial cris...
Just as it began to seem as though they might never get around to it, EU ministers have announced an agreement on how to spend their €5 billion of energy project funds – including a €200 million allocation for the Nabucco project. Radi...
Rosatom, the state nuclear company, has signed an atomic energy deal on joint uranium enrichment with Japan’s Toshiba Corp, and is set to receive $1.5 billion in state aid to increase its charter capital. EU officials are ‘wrangl...
Unemployment has hit 8.5% of Russia’s workforce, according to new data. More than 11,000 people in the Urals city of Nizhny Tagil could lose their jobs when cargo wagons producer Uralvagonzavod halts a conveyor next month, and the comp...
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