Russia

June 20, 2012

Today in Russian Business – June 20, 2012

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton writes enthusiastically in the Wall Street Journal about improved trade relations with Russia and why it’s time to repeal the Jackson-Vanik amendment.  Finance Minister Anton Siluanov says Russia has earmark...
June 20, 2012

RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – June 20, 2012

TODAY: Russian ship halted on way to deliver helicopters to Syria; Obama says Russia understands dangers of Syrian civil war; Cameron and Lavrov argue over Putin’s investment in Assad’s rule; Medvedev pledges support for Chechnya; Putin promises r...
June 20, 2012

RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – June 20, 2012

TODAY: Russian ship halted on way to deliver helicopters to Syria; Obama says Russia understands dangers of Syrian civil war; Cameron and Lavrov argue over Putin’s investment in Assad’s rule; Medvedev pledges support for Chechnya; Putin promises r...
June 19, 2012

Kremlin Kontackte

President Vladimir Putin has made it known at several points, not without a hint of pride, that he does not use the Internet.  Doubtless his disdain for all matters web-oriented stems in part from it being the favored tool of the seditious opposit...
June 19, 2012

RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – June 19, 2012

TODAY: ‘Open dialogue’ witnessed at Obama-Putin meeting; no agreement on Syria reached; Russia sends two warships to the conflict zone. Cooperation on solving missile defense issues possible; Washington says Jackson-Vanik and Magnitksy...
June 18, 2012

New Opposition Coalition Formed

It was announced yesterday that two major opposition groups will merge.  Parnas, the People’s Freedom Party, which was denied registration in June of last year, will join forces with Vladimir Ryzhkov’s long-standing Republican Party of Russi...
June 18, 2012

Sechin’s New Role Signals Old Power Structure

When Prime Minister Medvedev’s cabinet was announced on May 21, some observers noted with optimism that a handful of reformers remained among the hardline siloviki satellites of President Putin. This was perhaps the last point at which that ...
June 15, 2012

ECHR Changes Spark Fears For Russians

The European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg is a bright spot on the horizon for many Russians who feel that seeking justice in their homeland, notorious for its ‘legal nihilism’, is a fool’s errand.  We’ve heard a lot ...
June 15, 2012

ECHR Changes Spark Fears For Russians

The European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg is a bright spot on the horizon for many Russians who feel that seeking justice in their homeland, notorious for its ‘legal nihilism’, is a fool’s errand.  We’ve heard a lot ...
June 15, 2012

Investigating Bastrykin’s Backtrack

On Wednesday the news broke that Novaya Gazeta’s deputy editor Sergei Sokolov (seen left) had apparently been threatened by Russia’s chief investigator Aleksandr Bastrykin, in an ominous sounding confrontation in a Moscow forest. The c...