Russia

January 23, 2012

RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – Jan 23, 2012

TODAY: Presidential candidates’ bids under question; Human Rights Watch and PACE delegation attack Russian politics; Russia supplying Syria with arms; Putin mistrusts opposition, says Kudrin; Feb 4 protest registration denied; voting webcams insta...
January 23, 2012

RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – Jan 23, 2012

TODAY: Presidential candidates’ bids under question; Human Rights Watch and PACE delegation attack Russian politics; Russia supplying Syria with arms; Putin mistrusts opposition, says Kudrin; Feb 4 protest registration denied; voting webcams insta...
January 20, 2012

Today in Russian Business – Jan 20, 2012

Mikhail Prokhorov says he ‘know[s] how to fight corruption’.  Various Russian economists agree with the World Trade Organization’s latest summation of the global economy, including a poor outlook for its own growth.  According to a senior WTO offi...
January 20, 2012

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

TODAY: Rally to remember Markelov and Baburova; gay rights activists arrested; Churov offers to resign; FSB chief brands rights groups ‘extremist’; more plastic rock spy stories; NATO disparages Russia troop plan; Epiphany celebrations. Hundreds o...
January 19, 2012

Today in Russian Business – Jan 19, 2012

The health inspector’s summation that Ukrainian cheese has seen ‘a marked deterioration’ was ‘predictable’, says RFE/RL, noting the current arguments between Ukraine and Russia over energy contracts.  German Gref, the head of Sberbank, says more n...
January 19, 2012

Today in Russian Business – Jan 19, 2012

The health inspector’s summation that Ukrainian cheese has seen ‘a marked deterioration’ was ‘predictable’, says RFE/RL, noting the current arguments between Ukraine and Russia over energy contracts.  German Gref, the head of Sberbank, says more n...
January 19, 2012

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

TODAY: New League of Voters snubbed by furious Putin; Shuvalov links unrest with economic prosperity; Gudkov and Ryzhkov claim phones are tapped; Navalny meets with Orthodox representatives; gay rights protest request denied; Britain admits to spy...
January 19, 2012

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

TODAY: New League of Voters snubbed by furious Putin; Shuvalov links unrest with economic prosperity; Gudkov and Ryzhkov claim phones are tapped; Navalny meets with Orthodox representatives; gay rights protest request denied; Britain admits to spy...
January 18, 2012

The Countdown Begins

Some analysis of Vladimir Putin’s current position appears in The Economist this week, where author G.F. suggests that Alexei Kudrin is playing turncoat by ‘masquerading‘ as a reformer, and that Putin’s apparent concessions...
January 18, 2012

The Countdown Begins

Some analysis of Vladimir Putin’s current position appears in The Economist this week, where author G.F. suggests that Alexei Kudrin is playing turncoat by ‘masquerading‘ as a reformer, and that Putin’s apparent concessions...