Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said he was willing to consider incentives to reverse a further decline in oil output, which, the Energy Minister predicts, will drop by at least 8% through 2013. Russia is taking steps to stake its claim in Arc...
The idea of merging Norilsk Nickel with several other Russian miners is generally agreed to have no merit, and to be a means of merely unloading company debts onto the state, but mergers have not been ruled out entirely, suggests one of the compan...
TODAY: IT revolution and pollution on the government’s agenda; Maria Sergeyeva: polarizing the blogosphere; Rogozin baits NATO; US-Russia space collision creates debris; schoolteacher may be fired for protesting.President Dmitry Medvedev has...
There were a couple of interesting developments today that suggested the ways in which U.S.-Russia relations might play out under the Obama administration. Firstly, U.S. Undersecretary of State William Burns, a former ambassador in Russia, met wit...
In her new book, “Power, Energy, and the New Russian Imperialism,” Anita Orban, the director of the Budapest-based Constellation Energy Institute, argues that the Kremlin’s foreign policy can be almost entirely pinned to the stre...
The private intelligence agency Stratfor has an interesting article about how the Obama Administration may be using a planned Central European missile defense system as a bargaining chip in talks about nukes with Iran. At a February 10 press confe...
On the eve of the one year anniversary of Kosovo’s independence, Serbia’s president, Boris Tadi, has delineated his country’s position on the new republic to the European Union (which Kosovo wants to join). While Serbia recognize...
The state will go ahead with previous plans to construct Russia’s largest hydropower plant in Evenk, despite protests from environmentalists and locals who believe the resulting reservoir would fundamentally alter the region’s ecosyste...
A senior Russian prosecutor has accused ‘former and current deputy finance ministers’ of large-scale theft of state funds. ‘Russia’s plan to outline a vision of a new global economic order to the Group of Seven financ...
TODAY: Putin announces no defense spending cuts; military spending to be cut; arms exports to rise. Medvedev turns his attention to prison population. Court deports US rabbi; study center predicts rise in racist attacks; Lavrov says Russia open to...
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