The World Policy Institute speculates on Russia’s stance vis-à-vis America on Iran and nukes: “Despite its public claims to the contrary, Moscow knows that Iran’s missile capacity poses a threat and has at times publicly admitted...
President Obama managed to squeeze in some remarks about nuclear non-proliferation in his economic stimulus talk yesterday, saying, “One of my goals is to prevent nuclear proliferation generally. I think that it’s important for the Uni...
Oil majors LUKoil, Rosneft and TNK-BP have, in previous years, donated a combined $1.5 billion per year to charitable causes, but as companies slash their charity budgets to cope with the effects of the financial crisis, the philanthropic communit...
President Dmitry Medvedev warned that Russia’s economy should brace for a ‘tough year’, that signs of recovery shouldn’t be expected before 2010, and that the country has not yet seen the worst of the crisis. Des...
TODAY: Kremlin think-tank blames Russia’s economic structure for current financial troubles; Kyrgyzstan delays vote on US base closure, awaits funds; Putin introduces bill to criminalize stock price manipulation, plans domestic ratings agenc...
Forget oil pipelines or arms deals, Russia’s influence in Latin America has hit another major financial nerve ending: casinos. As The Miami Herald reports, Russia’s Ritzio Entertainment Group manages a string of successful bingo halls ...
Remember the soldier who embarrassed commanders by disappearing from his unit and turning up in Georgia? A further report from Reuters documents the Russian military stating that the soldier, Alexander Glokhov, will not be punished if he gives him...
What, exactly, were the motivations behind Kyrgyzstan’s decision to kick the Americans out of Manas air base, a strategic military installation for the war in Afghanistan? In the days since the announcement, speculation has ranged from Russi...
The Chicago Tribune hits the streets with Russia’s discontented masses, including a cosmetics company manager who literally stopped her car on a busy road to join an anti-Kremlin protest. Says Sergei Guriev, rector of the New Economic School...
Rosatom will become the first supplier of nuclear fuel to India, after the 45-member Nuclear Suppliers Group, which was founded after India detonated a nuclear device in 1974, ended its boycott of the country. ‘Europe and Russia both a...
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