In a Moscow Times op-ed today, Liam Halligan, chief economist at Prosperity Capital Management, warns that even with Russia’s recently-approved privatization plan, the country’s investment climate leaves much to be desired: Russia̵...
The Guardian brings a report this week providing further details of Anna Chapman’s background, including a video of a recently-unearthed New York Entrepreneur Week interview with Chapman from last year.
TODAY: Forest fires and heavy pollution; Khimki activists; Medvedev’s human rights chief resigns her post, Kommersant’s Mikhailin resigns from police council; murky business of stray animals; Russia could partner with NATO on missile d...
TODAY: Medvedev orders Kremlin corruption investigation, signs law extending FSB powers as the service looks set to expand; Khimki forest activists trash admin building? YouTube to be blocked by court order; Moscow smog levels ten times above safe...
Suddenly it seems that spies are everywhere. According Czech newspaper reports this week, three generals were dismissed from the Czech military last year because of contacts with an alleged Russian spy. Robert Rachardzo, also known as Robert R, wo...
In an insightful column in the Moscow Times today, Matthew Hulbert takes a look at the recent BP reshuffle and how it might play out on the Russian market. Here’s an excerpt: [I]f BP is to survive, it must surely look beyond the United...
Russia celebrates a new official holiday today, commemorating the country’s convesion to Christianity. According to a Reuters report published in the Washington Post, this is another sign of the growing influence of the Orthodox Church...
Over at Foreign Policy’s blog, The Cable, Josh Rogin suggests there may be enough Republican senators voting in favor of the New START in order to get the treaty passed: As the Senate Foreign Relations Committee gets ready to vote on Preside...
Everybody has heard of Potemkin villages. They say that during Catherine the Great’s era, many villages were ordered built by Grigory Potemkin in which the only thing real was the facade. Viewed from the front, it seems as though there is a ...
Hello dear readers … my apologies for the relative absence recently – both RA and I have been wrapped up in a number of summer projects which deprived us of blogging time. Over the next few weeks we will probably be a little ligh...
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