Editor’s note: On 10 December of last year, less than a week after the death of the incumbent Patriarch of All the Russias, Alexiy II, our Russia Correspondent Grigory Pasko made a bold prediction, inconspicuously tucked away in a corn...
BP has had a legendarily bad experience with its investments in Russia, but in some ways this has been a direct result of its decision to jump into a high stakes political game. Various news media are reporting on the company’s fall in...
Robert Kagan is pretty worried about the new administration cutting defense spending. From the Washington Post: The Obama administration is right to want to begin negotiations with Russia over missile defense and arms control. But it is a poor ope...
Russia’s gas dispute with Ukraine last month caused a 10% drop in production. ‘It has become cliche to say that the latest natural-gas row between Russia and Ukraine should be a wake-up call for the EU in its sluggish struggle to...
Russia and Belarus are expected to approve a package of joint anti-crisis measures, together with an agreement on the joint protection of the Union State airspace and the creation of an integrated regional air-defense system, at today’s Unio...
TODAY: Russia offers money to Kyrgyzstan to abandon obligations on its US military base; Tajik President cancels Moscow trip; Peskov says Putin was misunderstood; more protests on the horizon, Amnesty International demands release of opposition pr...
Egged on somewhat, perhaps, by what he views as Vladimir Putin’s use of the US as a scapegoat for Russia’s financial problems, Clifford J. Levy wrote in the New York Times over the weekend about the doubtful light cast on Putin’s...
Either the Russian public simply can’t afford to spend their rubles on printed matter these days, or people are waking up to the subjective nature of the printed word. A new poll by the Russian Business Rating Agency suggests that more...
Prime Minister of the RF Vladimir Putin in an interview with Bloomberg said: “I never had it as a goal to destroy billionaires. My goal has been for all to live according to the rules, which are called laws. These rules are being made legall...
From Anatoly Chubais in the Wall Street Journal today: Still, according to Mr. Chubais, Mr. Putin probably meant what he said. The latest bout of state intervention in Russia was no more planned in Moscow than in Washington or Europe, he says. The...
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