January 21, 2015 By Robert Amsterdam

RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – Jan 21, 2015

TODAY: Russian delegates appear sanguine as World Economic Forum begins; Schlumberger looking to make major investment in Russian oil services company; Central Bank denies need for capital controls; study finds more than half of Russians in state of economic deprivation. Ukraine accuses Russia of direct involvement in conflict; Moscow mulling delivery of air missiles to Iran. Amnesty International concerned over Kremlin attack on NGOs; artists’ Lenin exorcism work results in jail.