The former president of the Bank of Moscow, Andrei Borodin (currently wanted by the authorities), says that the Kremlin’s buyout of the bank was ‘an extremely inefficient use of state resources’ and ‘an insane waste of money’. How embarrassing: t...
TODAY: Kim Jong-Il arrives in Russia; Mayor of Sergiev Posad shot dead; Matviyenko wins both municipal elections; Rogozhin’s nationalist group registered; Putin’s push for disability rights; police to take lie-detector tests; medical drug addicts;...
In blogging terms, this is ancient history (published yesterday), but the always-sharp Julia Ioffe has a great breakdown in the New Yorker of why the 20th anniversary of the 1991 Soviet coup against Gorbachev which led to the unraveling of the USS...
Things have been pretty grim in Syria for many weeks now, deteriorating even further from earlier in the five-month-long repression. Depending on what numbers you are consulting, the death toll from the government crackdowns has reached as high a...
Things have been pretty grim in Syria for many weeks now, deteriorating even further from earlier in the five-month-long repression. Depending on what numbers you are consulting, the death toll from the government crackdowns has reached as high a...
Moscow will lose 1,000 of its 24,000 civil servants next year. Companies continue to vie for inclusion in the expanding Skolkovo Business Park, which has just welcomed its 100th member. The former CEO of Bank of Moscow is seeking $4.8 million in...
TODAY: United Russia members defect to opposition; satellite goes missing; U.S. report cites chronic North Caucasus violence; Karelia wants to ban Halloween; Moscow hooliganism; 20th anniversary of Communist coup marked by memoirs as Gorbachev con...
TODAY: United Russia members defect to opposition; satellite goes missing; U.S. report cites chronic North Caucasus violence; Karelia wants to ban Halloween; Moscow hooliganism; 20th anniversary of Communist coup marked by memoirs as Gorbachev con...
Vladimir Putin underscored the importance of the aerospace industry as Moscow’s MAKS airshow was host to a slew of deals yesterday totaling over $1 billion, listed by the Moscow Times here. The deals include 24 Sukhoi Superjets for VEB ($760.8 mi...
TODAY: Press looks back on 20 years since the Soviet collapse; Chavez praises Russia for arms supplies, anticipates second loan; Kremlin report focuses on ‘culture of poverty’; spaceflights, rally of blondes. Mikhail Gorbachev held a press confere...
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