Here’s another piece on Russia’s decision to give up on negotiations to join the World Trade Organization. The Economist says that not only has Russia ‘removed an easy concession that [Barack Obama] might have offered’...
As if Gazprom – for better or for worse – weren’t already enough of a national Russian treasure, Ria Novosti reports this week on what must be the most bizarre business move of the century. Lawmakers of Russia’s southern Si...
Dmitry Medvedev’s ambitious claiming of Russia as ‘the epicenter of world politics‘ during this week’s BRIC summit isn’t carrying much weight in the Western press, with many observers disparaging Russia’s role i...
Andrei Piontkovsky shares his opinions – and his alone – about the motivations behind the second trial of Mikhail Khodorkovsky. He says that it functions as a kind of insurance policy to keep President Dmitry Medvedev reigned in ...
A country that still hasn’t come back home from the war By Grigory Pasko, journalist “…The wizard in the light-blue helicopter has already arrived, the helicopter turned out to be military.” – Viktor Shenderovich. * *...
Some key stats that Bloomberg uncovers in what must be the 800th article in the past 48 hours with the word “BRIC” in it: Dollar bonds sold by China earned 11.4 percent in the past year, more than double the 4.6 percent for debt in yua...
Not that I needed to add one more article to the growing pile of opinions separating Russia from Brazil, China, and India, but the logic in this one was a little hard to follow: “It was incredibly surprising to us how quickly people had aban...
There was talk last year, during the initial heat of the financial crisis, that Russia’s four Las Vegas-style gambling zones would not go ahead, due to concerns over how they were going to be funded. Despite attempts by the Ministry of...
Andrei Nekrasov is a Russian documentary filmmaker whose work has often taken a sharply critical approach to the current government in Russia (including a Cannes-award winning doc on the Litvinenko case). He’s been published several ti...
It’s an interesting move for the Obama administration to propose the involvement of Russia in an alternative anti-ballistic missile shield effort, just two and a half weeks before the state visit to Moscow. On the one hand, Washington ...
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