Boris Martynov: “Russia’s geopolitical interest in Latin America needs to be reinforced with economics” Grigory Pasko, journalist The Institute of Latin America of the Russian Academy of Sciences has existed since the year 1961. ...
Here we go again: Gazprom has warned it will again cut off gas to Ukraine on March 8 if the country does not pay back 400 million dollars of new debts. ExxonMobil is preparing to drill new exploration wells at its $17 billion Sakhalin-1 proj...
Budget revenues for this year have been almost halved, but the state intends to increase spending by $14 billion to support the economy – never mind the deficit. The Sochi Olympics continues its search for sponsors from the airline and...
TODAY: Medvedev orders crackdown on extremism, and calls for improved prosecutor performance; US human rights report critical of Russia, may turn to Iran for supply route; web monitoring, human trafficking, Putin mythology.President Dmitry Medvede...
We’ve all heard about the Russian government’s preemptive planning to augment the riot police and expand their powers to break up protests – which are expected to increase dramatically as a result of the global economic crisis &#...
Today Russia lost another espionage asset in Estonia, demonstrating the ongoing recruitment of foreign spies and purchase of state secrets on behalf of the FSB – Cold War style. Seems like these kinds of treason cases involving Russia ...
Amid the aftermath of the bungled Anna Politkovskaya murder trial, which one Moscow Times columnist says might be disconcertingly rewarding to “certain members of the liberal opposition who take joy whenever the government reveals its gross ...
What, exactly, does Russia want from Afghanistan? The question has preoccupied the global media for weeks. Today, two countervailing theories emerge. Notwithstanding the threat of Islamic extremism filtering into the Caucasus, writing in the Inter...
From the FT report on the Russian economy being hit by an 8.8% decline: Economists linked the sharp fall in January production to the virtual paralysis of the financial system as the government slowly devalued to rouble, creating a lucrative one-w...
The problem with stealing so much private property (for Russia and Venezuela anyways) is that no one is particularly interested in putting much capital in your hands for the development of expensive energy projects. Hence the Chinese swoop i...
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