RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – Dec 24, 2013

By Citizen M | Published: December 24, 2013

TODAY: Freed Pussy Riot members dismiss clemency move; remain staunch critics of Putin’s Russia; Khordokovsky release indicates rift within Kremlin?  Phillips’ Magnitsky sanction issue; Ukraine eurobond purchase; inventor of the world’s most famous gun dies. Nadezhda Tolokonnikova of Pussy Riot, who was released yesterday a few hours after fellow activist Maria Alyokhina, has greeted the […]

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RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – Dec 23, 2013

By Citizen M | Published: December 23, 2013

TODAY: Khordokovsky reunited with family in Berlin; talks to press; states he will not sponsor opposition but rather fight for rights of political prisoners. Pussy Riot member walks free; describes her own release as cynical move; environmental activist receives jail sentence; Arctic oil. Mikhail Khordokovsky has spent his first weekend of freedom in Berlin, after being […]

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RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – Dec 20, 2013

By Citizen M | Published: December 20, 2013

TODAY: Khordokovsky will be pardoned, Putin announces at end of news conference; MICEX jumps at the surprise news; attempt to propitiate Sochi critics? President denounces Arctic 30 and pities Pussy Riot; has no plans for a successor.  Washington will not expand Magnitksy list; Syria; helicopters.  Just as his four-hour press conference was drawing to a […]

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RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – Dec 19, 2013

By Citizen M | Published: December 19, 2013

TODAY: Putin’s annual Q&A underway; says Ukraine deal ‘brotherly’; mayoral elections to stay. HRW complains over Sochi intimidation. Amnesty for Pussy Riot seen as PR move; Bolotnaya protestors will remain behind bars; Ground Forces commander fired; missile dispute. More than 1,300 journalists have been accredited for President Putin’s ninth annual marathon news conference, where he […]

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RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – Dec 10, 2013

By Citizen M | Published: December 10, 2013

TODAY: Putin’s media shake up signals end of Ria-Novosti; draft text of amnesty law reaches Duma; ex-Yukos managers face embezzlement charges; Russia and Cuba reach Soviet debt deal; deputies gadget sacrifice. In a move widely interpreted as an attempt to reassert control of the media, President Putin has announced that agency Ria-Novosti will be dissolved and […]

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RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – Dec 9, 2013

By Citizen M | Published: December 9, 2013

TODAY: Putin and Yanukovych move towards closer relations at meeting as protests continue in Kiev; battle for the Arctic; German President announces Sochi boycott; Elton John dedicates Moscow concert to homophobic murder victim; new charges for Khodorkovsky? Russia funds lose; 2013 to be an oil record. President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, said that Russia […]

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RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – Nov 15, 2013

By Citizen M | Published: November 15, 2013

TODAY: Russia and Egypt poised to make military deal; Gazprom increases pressure on Ukraine; Khodorkosky appeal; Politkovskaya jury dismissed; Pavlensky investigated; Tolokonnikova in hospital; emotional Putin; Beatle demands freedom for Arctic 30. Relations with Egypt are on the verge of a dramatic shift: Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov is in Cairo for high level and potentially […]

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RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – Nov 8, 2013

By Citizen M | Published: November 8, 2013

TODAY: Putin warns against spending ‘security cushion’ after slumping economic forecasts revealed; nationalism increasingly oppositionist; Tolokonnikova appeals to Supreme Court; Khodorkovsky, Politkovskaya, Greenpeace; mandatory Glonass. Following the release of dire economic forecasts for the next two decades,  President Vladimir Putin warned that Russia should not spend all of its fiscal reserves, calling the $89 billion […]

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RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – Oct 31, 2013

By Citizen M | Published: October 31, 2013

TODAY: Putin named most powerful person, leaves enemies out of history books; 200 Kremlin officials fired over income declarations at anti-corruption meeting; Sochi waste threatening water contamination and coastal erosion; LNG exports open up; Rosneft wants Kremlin’s port stake; Omsk against Halloween. The world’s most powerful person (according to Forbes magazine at least), President Vladimir Putin, […]

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RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – Oct 28, 2013

By Citizen M | Published: October 28, 2013

TODAY: Thousands march for ‘political prisoners’; solidarity events held for Khodorkovsky; Vkontakte charges cleared; Medvedev wants Russians to trust courts; women’s rights lagging; Georgia elects Russia-friendly president; mobile companies to warn of emergencies; Roizman profiled; World Cup hosting to go ahead. Thousands marched in central Moscow yesterday in support of the Bolotnaya Square suspects and […]

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