TODAY: Medvedev goes “campaigning”; Putin appoints controversial new NATO envoy; Zubkov to set up gambling zone; Nashi falling afoul of the law; British Council defy orders as promised; disagreements in the UN. First Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry M...
Gordon Brown’s government thinks it has an answer to the twin problems of climate change and energy security By Derek Brower in London SOMETIMES governments make the right decision the wrong way. Tomorrow, Gordon Brown’s Labour government will do ...
Russian stocks rose on the first trading day of the year, led by Gazprom “as investors bet that the leading candidate in the country’s presidential race will support the natural-gas industry if he takes office.” Shell’s chief officer has com...
A review of the Russian economy in 2007 and a forecast for events in 2008 can be found here. St. Petersburg’s government closed the city’s slot machine halls on Jan. 1 to comply with new anti- gambling legislation. Under a new law, all...
TODAY: 16-yr old activist attacked; Sarkozy defends Putin’s election; are corruption charges driving Putin’s political ambition?; Poland expects imports to be resumed; Russia tries to claim back its overseas Orthodox churches. One Russian newspape...
In a new Op/Ed for the recently reactivated Moscow Times, Anders Aslund points out two reasons why the president of Russia is unable to give up power: “Putin could not retire for two reasons. First, serious accusations of corruption and gran...
There’s an excellent column by Gideon Rachman coming out in tomorrow’s Financial Times comparing the “Illiberal Capitalist” models of Russia and China: But for all these differences, there are also increasingly strong simil...
Well, this is interesting, no? From Kommersant: French President Nicolas Sarkozy, when asked at a press conference about the fact that the OSCE declared the parliamentary elections in Russia undemocratic, stated that it was “completely ridiculous”...
Following yesterday’s news that the Baltic pipeline project (Nord Stream) is expected to go over budget by 50-100%, some bloggers are catching on to the complicated political challenge posed by the German-Russian alliance. This comes from Ci...
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