TODAY: Lavrov travels to Damascus, slams Western ‘hysteria’; pre-election debates begin with Zyuganov and Prokhorov; government officials to travel by helicopter? McCain taunts Putin; Medvedev wants rightist party. Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov...
TODAY: Lavrov travels to Damascus, slams Western ‘hysteria’; pre-election debates begin with Zyuganov and Prokhorov; government officials to travel by helicopter? McCain taunts Putin; Medvedev wants rightist party. Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov...
Moscow might have been the focal point of the weekend’s opposition rallies but there is proof that Russia’s smaller cities do not lie in regional oblivion, impervious to the tremors shaking the foundations of the Kremlin. On Saturday,...
Vladimir Putin’s plan to buy back shares in VTB from small businesses whose investments led to losses has won little support in the Kremlin, with the bank’s deputy chairman saying it was ‘wrong’ to use state funds for such a transaction. Putin’s ...
Ahead of tomorrow’s planned protests in Moscow, the usually docile Russian state media has been experimenting with some more diverse programming, according to Charles Clover in the Financial Times: Russian TV viewers, long accustomed to bori...
Ahead of tomorrow’s planned protests in Moscow, the usually docile Russian state media has been experimenting with some more diverse programming, according to Charles Clover in the Financial Times: Russian TV viewers, long accustomed to bori...
Vladimir Putin has promised to compensate small businesses for any losses incurred on shares bought in the 2007 stock market floating of VTB: ‘Citizens should know that we will do everything possible to ensure that they do not have any losses.’ T...
Russia is a veritable rainbow of imaginative protest actions in the run-up to next month’s elections (which the unpopular Vladimir Putin is certain to win), as activists try to come up with eye-catching ways of thumbing their noses at the Kr...
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