It’s been more than one year now since the historic memorandum of understanding was signed between Gazprom and Algeria’s state-owned exporter Sonatrach, an agreement which in theory put 69% of Italy’s natural gas under the contro...
I came across an interesting Russian perspective on the missile shield issue from the Moscow Defense Brief: “The decision to deploy the “front lines” of the missile defence system in Poland and the Czech Republic is completely in tune with U...
Following today’s news of Medvedev’s nomination to run for president, Reuters has published some extracts from his January World Economic Forum speech, which is viewed by some analysts as his most official “keynote” address:
Today: Medvedev to run for President; Renault buys Avtovaz stake; more failed talks between Russia and the United States; European Court of Human Rights rules against Russia in activist case. President Vladimir Putin has backed First Deputy Prime ...
“The international community should not let itself being blinded by the Russian leadership and should resist of getting drawn into Russia’s narrative of democracy and rule of law – a story of “double standards”, an outdated conception ...
Today the AFP is reporting on the flurry of mega-deals hastily going down in Russia as businesses and investors, large and small, look to grab what they can, while they can. This near panic is contributing to a greater sense of instability and pol...
Today the human rights watchdog Amnesty International issued an important statement calling upon authorities of the Russian Federation to meet international fair trial standards in the new processes against Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev....
In what was initially called an apparent suicide, a senior level banker of the powerful state-owned financial group VTB was found dead in a pool outside his luxury country home in the Odintsovo District. Oleg Zhukovsky, who held the title of corpo...
“If a person is weeping – leave…” Poet and human rights colossus Alexander Tkachenko dies in Russia By Grigory Pasko, journalist The phoned me from the radio station «Liberty» and told me that Alexander Petrovich Tkachenko had died. Director-Gener...
The following is an exclusive translation of an interview with Lilia Shevtsova by the German newspaper Die Welt. Russia is committing suicide … … claims political analyst Lilia Shevtsova, because Putin is destroying state institutions ...
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