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July 13, 2012

Skolkovo: Risk vs. Innovation

Russia’s efforts to develop its own Silicon Valley in the form of the 400-hectare-squared Skolkovo Innovation Center are progressing on schedule.  Aside from providing a streamlined and well-oiled path for outwards-flowing foreign direct inv...
July 12, 2012

Putin Foes, Cashflows

Alexander Lebedev is taking opposition politics to a whole new level.  His National Reserve Bank is to begin issuing a new debit card that will donate 1% of all purchases to RosPil, Alexei Navalny’s corruption-fighting organisation.  Lebedev...
July 12, 2012

RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – July 12, 2012

TODAY: Syrian opposition blames Russia; internet firewall bill approved by Duma; Russian delegates fight U.S. Magnitsky act; Lebedev debit card to fund Navalny; Tajikistan ups military base rent; opposition seek to gather 10,000. ‘The Syrian peopl...
July 12, 2012

RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – July 12, 2012

TODAY: Syrian opposition blames Russia; internet firewall bill approved by Duma; Russian delegates fight U.S. Magnitsky act; Lebedev debit card to fund Navalny; Tajikistan ups military base rent; opposition seek to gather 10,000. ‘The Syrian peopl...
July 10, 2012

Flooding Ruins Lives, Reveals Distrust

It is indisputable that heavy rainfall can produce major flooding. It can also be extremely difficult to preempt a natural disaster or its consequences, as authorities from across the globe will testify.  However in the instance of the flash flood...
July 10, 2012

Flooding Ruins Lives, Reveals Distrust

It is indisputable that heavy rainfall can produce major flooding. It can also be extremely difficult to preempt a natural disaster or its consequences, as authorities from across the globe will testify.  However in the instance of the flash flood...
July 10, 2012

Today in Russian Business – July 10, 2012

Deputy Finance Minister Tatiana Nesterenko has told the press that should oil prices average at around $100 a barrel, Russia’s federal budget will fall short of $3 billion.  VTB Chairman Andrey Kostin admitted to BBC’s HARDtalk that he agree...
July 10, 2012

Today in Russian Business – July 10, 2012

Deputy Finance Minister Tatiana Nesterenko has told the press that should oil prices average at around $100 a barrel, Russia’s federal budget will fall short of $3 billion.  VTB Chairman Andrey Kostin admitted to BBC’s HARDtalk that he agree...
July 9, 2012

Speaking Freely About Medvedev’s Presidency

The state Duma has been busy of late debating a handful of bills designed to curtail the work of civil society and the opposition.  The new bill on NGO nomenclature and the bill on Internet extremism, both poised as potential tools for suppressing...
July 9, 2012

Speaking Freely About Medvedev’s Presidency

The state Duma has been busy of late debating a handful of bills designed to curtail the work of civil society and the opposition.  The new bill on NGO nomenclature and the bill on Internet extremism, both poised as potential tools for suppressing...