Russia

June 11, 2013

RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – June 11, 2013

TODAY: All-Russia People’s Front a move towards grassroots activism?; candidates for Moscow mayor speaking out against migrant workers, Luzkhov to team up with Prokhorov to win race; Duma debates homosexual propaganda law as LGBT film festival is ...
June 11, 2013

RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – June 11, 2013

TODAY: All-Russia People’s Front a move towards grassroots activism?; candidates for Moscow mayor speaking out against migrant workers, Luzkhov to team up with Prokhorov to win race; Duma debates homosexual propaganda law as LGBT film festival is ...
June 10, 2013

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

TODAY: Navalny to run for Moscow Mayor; snap elections are pro-democracy, says Sobyanin; TV show pulled following Putin divorce joke; Gazprom and RWE dispute talks fail; the mismanagement of Gazprom; Rogozin brags of missile defense shield; Pussy ...
June 10, 2013

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

TODAY: Navalny to run for Moscow Mayor; snap elections are pro-democracy, says Sobyanin; TV show pulled following Putin divorce joke; Gazprom and RWE dispute talks fail; the mismanagement of Gazprom; Rogozin brags of missile defense shield; Pussy ...
June 7, 2013

RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – June 7, 2013

TODAY: Bolotnaya Square protesters’ detentions extended; Putin and wife announce divorce; Kasparov’s exile snubbed by Investigative Committee; Medvedev says E.U. blocking Gazprom Nord Stream access; Central Bank to hold interest rates; Communists ...
June 7, 2013

RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – June 7, 2013

TODAY: Bolotnaya Square protesters’ detentions extended; Putin and wife announce divorce; Kasparov’s exile snubbed by Investigative Committee; Medvedev says E.U. blocking Gazprom Nord Stream access; Central Bank to hold interest rates; Communists ...
June 6, 2013

Will Russians Care about Brain Drain?

Vadim Nikitin has an op/ed running in the New York Times today on the departure of economist Sergei Guriev from Russia.  Will the persecution of the best and brightest attract popular sympathy?  Or have these liberal elites already benefitted too ...
June 6, 2013

Will Russians Care about Brain Drain?

Vadim Nikitin has an op/ed running in the New York Times today on the departure of economist Sergei Guriev from Russia.  Will the persecution of the best and brightest attract popular sympathy?  Or have these liberal elites already benefitted too ...
June 6, 2013

RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – June 6, 2013

TODAY: Kasparov says will not return to Russia; Bolotnaya Square protest; Sergei Guriev speaks about events leading to his emigration; activist fined for promoting HIV awareness; Udaltsov may run for Moscow Mayor, Sobyanin steps down; foreign asse...
June 5, 2013

RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – June 5, 2013

TODAY: E.U.-Russia Summit debates visas and human rights, Putin comments on Syria, Guriev, gay rights on sidelines; Alexeyeva warns of totalitarianism; inflation at fastest rate in 21 months; Golos fined $10k; Sobyanin to step down for early re-el...