Michael McFaul writes about the TIME selection of Vladimir Putin as Person of the Year in Slate: In mistaking correlation for causation—in arguing that the coincidence of Putin’s time in power and Russia’s economic recovery proves that...
Nationalist Alexander Dugin, who heads the «Eurasian Movement», recently declared: “There are no more opponents of the Putinite course, and if there are, then they are mentally ill and need to be sent to get a medical examination. Putin is everywh...
Russia is willing to participate in the construction of a nuclear power plant in Belarus. Russia will raise duties on oil exports by 21%, starting in February. A new pumped storage hydropower station in the Leningrad region, to be completed by Hyd...
Vneshtorgbank, Russia’s second largest bank, is to invest roughly $260 million in “the purchase and construction of a residential complex” in London. Magnit, Russia’s largest supermarket chain by stores, may seek to sell at...
Today: State corporations; GPS satellites launched and ballistic missiles tested; Lavrov discusses foreign policy; anti-globalists hold anti-luxury rally in St. Petersburg. The State Duma began passing laws to set up new state corporations in the ...
A few days ago Lilia Shevtsova published the following column in the Moscow Times: The Power Paralysis By Lilia Shevtsova Those watching President Vladimir Putin on television could not fail to see a change in his mood. After he decided on his par...
Russia’s retail turnover for November 2007 exceeded 1 trillion rubles for the first time ever, and the country will become the world’s fifth largest economy by 2020, provided its gross domestic product keeps its current annual growth rate. R...
Part of Russia’s plans to build Rosatom, the state nuclear power corporation, will include the setting up of a national nuclear energy university, to be based at the Moscow Engineering Physics Institute. Unified Energy System (UES) has completed t...
Today: bird flu; pro-Kremlin youth groups; relations with Iran steadily improving; US missile shield tensions continue; a satellite tracker for Putin’s labrador? Russia’s equivalent of Santa Claus is called Ded Moroz, or Father Frost. Every ...
Gazprom Neft Finance, a subsidiary of the energy giant Gazprom, has asked permission from the Federal Antitrust Service (FAS) to buy a 50% stake in Tomskneft from Rosneft. Libya‘s leader Colonel Muammar Qaddafi has met with Russian foreign m...
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