With joblessness at a nine-year high and unemployment benefits capped at less than 5,000 rubles, the Kremlin are searching for cashless ways of curbing potential social unrest stemming from the continuing fallout from the financial crisis. T...
Reuters is reporting on the passage of a parliamentary motion from Chancellor Angela Merkel’s party (the CDU), as well as coalition partners in the SPD, which states that the trial of Mikhail Khodorkovsky will be observed from Berlin as a cr...
This week Russia is hosting the first summit of BRIC nations in Yekaterinburg, which is the third summit in a row in under a week – all of which do not include any participation of North American or Western European countries. It appea...
Some more shots are exchanged over the realism vs. liberalism issue. From Paul Goble’s Window on Eurasia: In an essay posted on Grani.ru today, Irina Pavlova points out that “the post-Soviet powers that be have done everything to...
Some comments on Gazprom’s announcements of spending cuts and delays in developing the Yamal field from the Wall Street Journal: “A year-and-a-half ago we were worrying about whether Gazprom would get Bovanenkovo done in time” to...
From Ariel Cohen’s contribution to the New York Times: Furthermore, Medvedev and Kudrin would like to see Russia join the O.E.C.D. Herein lies the rub: Russia today doesn’t fit the organization’s criteria for property rights, tra...
By way of comparison to my last post on this topic, Bloomberg, via the Moscow Times, has done its own quote-tracking exercise of Russian discussion about the dollar, surveying some analysts on how they interpret the seemingly differing stances tha...
Russia vetoed a U.N. resolution extending the presence of a U.N. peacekeeping mission in Abkhazia. At issue was the language used to describe the mission. Georgian leaders wanted it to continue to be called the “United Nations Observer Missi...
The Associated Press is carrying a story on the article published in the Kommersant Vlast weekly by Mikhail Khodorkovsky on judicial reform: “What we have today is a justice system of which two-thirds does the bidding of the government and t...
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