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Gazprom Tells Ukraine to Pay Up
Yesterday Dmitry Medvedev ordered his old company Gazprom to enforce payment of a gas debt of $2.4 billion from the Ukraine, while Alexei Miller slipped in the announcement that Kiev would have to pay more than $400 per thousand cubic metres for g...
Russia to Benefit from Global Warming
We’re digging into this new 2025 report about the emergence of the multi-polar world, but for now, we have this from Forbes: The report says the warming earth will extend Russia and Canada’s growing season and ease their access to nort...
Energy Blast – Nov 21, 2008
The price of oil has fallen below $50 for the first time since May 2005. Does this herald a complete economic collapse for Russia? In what sounds like old news, Dmitry Medvedev is demanding that Ukraine pay a $2.4 billion natural gas d...
Today in Russian Business – Nov 21, 2008
Anxious to dispel fears of a complete economic collapse, during his United Russia speech yesterday Vladimir Putin vowed to protect Russia’s economy and promised a 4% profit tax cut, a measure that would amount to a state loss of around $14.6...
RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – Nov 21, 2008
TODAY: Politkovskaya defense will insist on open trial; Duma approves presidential term bill; Medvedev pledges cash to APEC, demands summit play stronger role in security; National Intelligence Council evaluates Russia’s global position; Rus...
A Juror Speaks Out at Politkovskaya Trial
Fresh from the Washington Post: The judge, Yevgeny Zubov, had ordered the trial closed a day earlier, saying members of the jury had refused to participate if reporters were allowed in the courtroom. But a man who identified himself as one of the ...
Video: Zakaria, Burns, and Cohen on Handling Russia
Fareed Zakaria recently held a panel on U.S.-Russia relations with Nicholas Burns and Stephen Cohen. Embedded video from CNN Video
Video: Medvedev’s Threat to Obama
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Grigory Pasko: Memento Mori
On 17 November, on the day of the start of the trial of the persons accused of the murder of the famous journalist, “Novaya gazeta” observer Anna Politkovskaya, an acquaintance telephoned me and said: “Have you heard!? The trial ...
