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January 9, 2013

RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – Jan 9, 2013

TODAY: Markets re-open on a high; EEU creating pressure among potential members; Polonsky could be detained until end of month; tax on screenings of foreign films; cosmonauts and the space industry; new radar stations; wolf hunt. Russian markets r...
January 8, 2013

RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – Jan 8, 2013

TODAY: Snowballers detained and lectured; U.S. warns Russia on Syrian banks; adoption cases; economic growth, Skolkovo; speakers’ corner delayed; Depardieu offered culture minister post. Police detained several people in St. Petersburg yesterday f...
January 8, 2013

RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – Jan 8, 2013

TODAY: Snowballers detained and lectured; U.S. warns Russia on Syrian banks; adoption cases; economic growth, Skolkovo; speakers’ corner delayed; Depardieu offered culture minister post. Police detained several people in St. Petersburg yesterday f...
January 7, 2013

RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – Jan 7, 2013

TODAY: Putin marks Orthodox Christmas; Patriarch Kirill urges citizen adoptions and Kremlin clemency; Ukraine wary of customs union; beer laws receive mixed response; Radio Free Europe President explains changes; Polonsky arrested in Cambodia.  Pr...
January 7, 2013

RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – Jan 7, 2013

TODAY: Putin marks Orthodox Christmas; Patriarch Kirill urges citizen adoptions and Kremlin clemency; Ukraine wary of customs union; beer laws receive mixed response; Radio Free Europe President explains changes; Polonsky arrested in Cambodia.  Pr...
January 4, 2013

Why Depardieu’s Russian Passport is a Non-Story

Vladimir Putin has scored a real PR coup by offering French actor Gerard Depardieu a Russian passport and a 13% tax rate.  Practically every major Western media outlet has run a story on it, and who could blame them? For Putin, the publicity stunt...
January 4, 2013

Why Depardieu’s Russian Passport is a Non-Story

Vladimir Putin has scored a real PR coup by offering French actor Gerard Depardieu a Russian passport and a 13% tax rate.  Practically every major Western media outlet has run a story on it, and who could blame them? For Putin, the publicity stunt...
January 4, 2013

RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – Jan 4, 2013

TODAY: Putin named most influential politician; Duma to consider nation-wide homosexuality ban; Gerard Depardieu granted Russian citizenship; adoption ban continues to draw ire; militant robots. Foreign Policy magazine has named President Vladimir...
January 4, 2013

RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – Jan 4, 2013

TODAY: Putin named most influential politician; Duma to consider nation-wide homosexuality ban; Gerard Depardieu granted Russian citizenship; adoption ban continues to draw ire; militant robots. Foreign Policy magazine has named President Vladimir...
January 3, 2013

Bienvenue en Russie, M. Depardieu!

Vladimir Putin has ruled Russia for more than 12 years now, but he hasn’t lost his sense of humor. The latest diplomatic gag is the granting of Russian citizenship to French actor Gerard Depardieu, who has in recent years made a big stink ov...