Russia

August 1, 2011

RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – Aug 1, 2011

TODAY: Strategy 31 protesters detained in Moscow and St. Petersburg; Polish crash report says Russia partly to blame; abortion laws could get tougher; businessman Darren Keane likened to Magnitsky; Matviyenko’s secret registration blocks oppositio...
August 1, 2011

RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – Aug 1, 2011

TODAY: Strategy 31 protesters detained in Moscow and St. Petersburg; Polish crash report says Russia partly to blame; abortion laws could get tougher; businessman Darren Keane likened to Magnitsky; Matviyenko’s secret registration blocks oppositio...
July 29, 2011

Sobyanin Fails To Pave The Way For Change

When Sergei Sobyanin was named the new mayor of Moscow, he seemed to represent a change, certainly in tone, from his predecessor.  The discreet Putin ally appeared from the shadows like a bland apparatchik in stark contrast to battleaxe Yuri Luzhk...
July 28, 2011

Trouser Injustice

All signs would suggest that it would take a regime change, if not a miracle, to see Mikhail Khodorkovsky or Platon Lebedev  granted freedom from their 13-year sentences for tax and fraud charges, so it is scarcely surprising that the flimsiest of...
July 28, 2011

Trouser Injustice

All signs would suggest that it would take a regime change, if not a miracle, to see Mikhail Khodorkovsky or Platon Lebedev  granted freedom from their 13-year sentences for tax and fraud charges, so it is scarcely surprising that the flimsiest of...
July 28, 2011

RA’s Daily Russian News Blast – July 28, 2011

TODAY: Kremlin vows response to US Magnitsky sanctions; Rogozin blasts Republicans; Moscow conservation activists report assault by security officers; cop-on-cop corruption; Lebedev denied parole.  Russia denies confidential info leak on internet;...
July 28, 2011

RA’s Daily Russian News Blast – July 28, 2011

TODAY: Kremlin vows response to US Magnitsky sanctions; Rogozin blasts Republicans; Moscow conservation activists report assault by security officers; cop-on-cop corruption; Lebedev denied parole.  Russia denies confidential info leak on internet;...
July 27, 2011

Russian Diplomacy, WWE Style

Russia's anger over the visa blacklist is false, its threats empty, but Washington would rather you take it at face value.
July 27, 2011

Today in Russian Business – July 27, 2011

Rosneft will not have to provide confidential documents to corruption whistleblower and minority shareholder Alexei Navalny, after a court rescinded a decision by a lower court. ‘This is just garbage. It brings everything back to square one,’ Nava...