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January 14, 2008

Russia to Silence “Voice of Beslan”?

In her posthumously published book of journals, Anna Politkovskaya wrote of several encounters with Beslan victims’ rights group, including the following: “We, the mothers of Beslan,” Marina Park says, “are guilty of having...
January 14, 2008

Energy Blast, Jan. 14, 2008

Lukoil, Russia’s largest private oil producer, said full-year profit exceeded $8 billion last year, a rise of at least 7%. Aluminum producer RusAl has secured long-term electricity supplies to insure against the tariff hike expected after po...
January 14, 2008

Today in Russian Business

Toyota plans to begin assembly of a new budget model at its St. Petersburg plant. Accounts of the Central Bank of Russia (CBR) and of a number of Russia’s companies have been frozen in France under the Swiss Noga lawsuit – Russia’s debt to t...
January 14, 2008

RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – Jan. 14, 2008

TODAY: Medvedev on tour; the British Council continues to defy orders from the Russian government and the UK ambassador has been summoned by the foreign ministry; Russia to boost overseas image; Russia and Ukraine are keen for economic cooperation...
January 13, 2008

The Dmitry Rogozin Appointment

From the Sunday Herald: “But just as Bolton brought unwanted baggage with him when Bush appointed him US ambassador to the UN, so too does Rogozin go to Nato with a preconceived agenda. He’s no friend of the north Atlantic alliance and...
January 12, 2008

Canada Looks for Value in Foreign Policy

Geoffrey York, a journalist from the Globe and Mail whom I know and respect greatly, had a very interesting article run in the paper on Friday about International Trade Minister David Emerson’s decision to back down from making any commentar...
January 11, 2008

Grigory Pasko: The New Year

The New Year By Grigory Pasko, journalist 2008 – the Year of the Yellow (Golden) Rat – will be met by many political prisoners of contemporary Russia in “red” colonies, that is ones that are not under control of the law, but rather the arbitrary t...
January 11, 2008

Hard Security vs. Energy Security

Is the world facing an energy crisis? Not according to Pierre Noël, of Cambridge University and the European Council on Foreign Relations in a new article for the FT, who argues that we must abandon the ridiculous notion of energy independence and...
January 11, 2008

Russian Opposition Launches New Online Platform

Both Deutsche Welle and Other Russia are reporting on the launch of a new content-rich web portal organized by the Russian opposition to document political repression: www.hroniki.info. According to OR: “The main goal of the web page is to c...