A day after Rosneft and Transneft secured a $25 billion loan with China in return for providing 20 years worth of oil from East Siberia, Russia has opened its first LNG plant, capable of providing five percent of world demand when running at full ...
The chess moves have come early and often in the opening weeks of America and Russia’s “reset” relationship, to quote a phrase much recycled by the media after Joseph Biden’s speech in Munich. But what to make of all this c...
Yesterday we reported about how the financial crisis might effect Russia’s hold on the north Caucasus, including Chechnya. Less money, it seems, could mean less loyalty from a propped-up, pro-Kremlin government all too capable of collapse. B...
Nothing you won’t have heard before, but a thermometer of the broad media stance on Russia’s economic climate can be found in this summary by the BBC. Russia’s rich are curbing their spending on art, forcing the Art Moscow ...
TODAY: Medvedev courting Japan; Lavrov courting Egypt; Iran courting air defense systems. Moscow Mayor speaks out against Kremlin, United Russia tries negative campaigning ahead of assembly elections; Supreme Court head resigns after son accused o...
The economic crisis is not just doing damage in Russia, but has a knock-on effect for its North Caucasus neighbours, says this report. Chechnya’s Kremlin-backed government, for example, will receive a reduced budget from Russia this ye...
Today Robert Amsterdam and other members of the legal team are quoted in a Bloomberg story on the second trial of political prisoner Mikhail Khodorkovsky. Bloomberg: Lawyers for Mikhail Khodorkovsky called theft and money-laundering charges brough...
Highlighting the problem of corruption in Russia, Alexander Karpov, the deputy head of the Russian Supreme Court, has resigned days after his son, Vladimir, who he claims not to have seen in five years, was arrested for taking a $28,000 bribe from...
Tucked into a piece of prime midtown Manhattan real estate is the mysterious Russian think tank, the Institute for Democracy and Cooperation. If the name sounds like a spoof by Stanley Kubrick, the institute’s director, Andranik Migranyan, a...
TODAY: Medvedev fires four governors in one day, fears of social unrest are suspected; Medvedev signs declaration of shared interests with Bolivia, promises helicopters; BBC Russian Service to stop making features; no change to Iran policies. Pros...
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