Russia

June 4, 2013

RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – June 4, 2013

TODAY: Politkovskaya suspects on trial again; gay rights activist calls for tolerance in wake of murders; Moscow mayor may run for early re-election;  Labour Code restricts outsourcing; E.U.-Russia Summit begins; Gazprom courting local providers. ...
June 4, 2013

RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – June 4, 2013

TODAY: Politkovskaya suspects on trial again; gay rights activist calls for tolerance in wake of murders; Moscow mayor may run for early re-election;  Labour Code restricts outsourcing; E.U.-Russia Summit begins; Gazprom courting local providers. ...
June 3, 2013

RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – June 3, 2013

TODAY: Russia to ban adoptions by same-sex couples; Pussy Riot members ends hunger strike; freedom of assembly protesters detained; Russian Railways joint venture; Putin rebukes governor; U.S. delegation discusses security and Boston bombing; nucl...
June 3, 2013

RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – June 3, 2013

TODAY: Russia to ban adoptions by same-sex couples; Pussy Riot members ends hunger strike; freedom of assembly protesters detained; Russian Railways joint venture; Putin rebukes governor; U.S. delegation discusses security and Boston bombing; nucl...
May 31, 2013

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

TODAY: Guriev discusses political pressure, says he will not return; fears of liberal brain drain; academics fear ‘foreign agent’ label will damage economic research; Levada Center refusing foreign grants; Belousov chosen as new Putin adviser; Lav...
May 29, 2013

Information Wars

Social network VKontakte, the largest in Europe with almost 200 million users as of last year, was put on a Kremlin blacklist ‘by accident’ last week.  It seems impossible that there could have been anything accidental about it, given the litany o...
May 29, 2013

RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – May 29, 2013

TODAY: Top economic adviser flees country; Pussy Riot hunger striker hospitalised; 23-fold income increase for drugs official; Vkontakte share sale linked to raid; Russia to supply Syria with missile shields, criticises EU for suspending embargo o...
May 28, 2013

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

TODAY: VKontakte ordered to remove group pages; population decline reversing? Nabucco pipeline threatened by South Stream; Borodin money-laundering case; anti-corruption wishlist; Putin in Bishkek for CTSO meetings; Olympic conference convenes; Ar...
May 28, 2013

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

TODAY: VKontakte ordered to remove group pages; population decline reversing? Nabucco pipeline threatened by South Stream; Borodin money-laundering case; anti-corruption wishlist; Putin in Bishkek for CTSO meetings; Olympic conference convenes; Ar...
May 27, 2013

RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – May 27, 2013

TODAY: Gay rights activists arrested in Moscow; Memorial appeals rejected by court; tolerance, protest, anti-Semitism; Medvedev says relationship with Putin guarantees his political career; VKontakte banned ‘by mistake’; Russia’s Browder request d...