State-run banks could unite to co-manage toxic assets from borrowers who default on loans as a means of ‘cutting expenses’. Coal miner SUEK has secured a 9.66 billion rouble ($265.6 million) loan from state-controlled bank VTB.&n...
TODAY: Russia and US ‘in agreement’ on Afghanistan despite Kyrgyz base closure; Medvedev will not comment on Biden speech; more Georgia tensions; economists, opposition and presidential advisers displeased with government’s handl...
It was not the greatest speech and it was not the worst, but Vice President Joseph Biden’s declaration of principles on the U.S.-Russia relationship made during this weekend’s Munich security conference made clear that despite all the ...
The following is an article on the aftermath of the Russia-Ukraine gas crisis by Andrew Wilson, Senior Policy Fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR), which was originally published in the Wall Street Journal on Jan. 27. Avoidin...
Mats Johansson, an MP from Sweden’s Moderate Party, has a brief comment up over at The Stockholm Observer about the security issues surrounding the passage of the Nord Stream pipeline through Swedish waters. Mr. Johansson kindly links ...
Eric Reguly has an extensive piece on the shifting fortunes of the fortunate in today’s Globe and Mail: Mr. Prokhorov loves basketball and played well. He made almost half of his foul shots and graciously avoided using his height and skills ...
Today there was a notable exchange between PM Vladimir Putin and EU Commission President José Manuel Barroso, when the latter raised his concerns over the murder of Stanislav Markelov and other notable human rights abuses occurring in Russia. ...
Thy tongue – thine enemy Grigory Pasko, journalist Если Вы хотите прочитать оригинал данной статьи на русском языке, нажмите сюда. For starters, a joke. A man comes to a rabbi: “Rebbe, I’m a Jew, but I don’t know the langua...
Now this is just plain mean … and will no doubt hurt Hugo’s feelings. It is amusing how the diplomat is practically blaming Venezuela for initiating the deals. From El Universal: Russia’s ambassador to Spain Alexander Kuzne...
This comes from Sigrid Rausing in the New Statesman: My book on the collective farm was published in 2004. In it I predicted that the culture of memorials would take off: prison camps would be turned into museums, books would be written, docu...
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