There appear to be some discrepancies over views on possible ruble devaluation and the rate of depletion of Russia’s foreign exchange reserves. From AP: Russia’s finance minister sought Wednesday to reassure investors and citizens that...
That’s what Yulia Latynina was suggesting in her column today. Garry Kasparov also has a big interview with Reuters in which he (no surprise) not only predicts the rapid toppling of the regime within the next two years, but also hypoth...
A Medical Report for SPS By Oleg Kozlovsky On 15 November, Union of Right Forces (SPS), one of the two remaining democratic parties in Russia, was liquidated by its own members at an extraordinary convention in Moscow suburbs. This was, as openly ...
Below is an excerpt from an editorial published in the Boston Globe. The New York Times also ran a piece, the petition can be signed here, and other blog material read here, here, and here (Pasko wrote his piece back on Jan.24, 2007). Recent...
From Yulia Latynina in the Moscow Times, a suggestion of a building scapegoat campaign: In order to understand how the Russian economy was built, ask yourself one simple question: Is it possible to carry water in a colander? Yes — if you are...
TODAY: Politkovskaya trial closed to public; tariff increases could harm WTO bid; presidential term bill has successful second reading in Duma; Medvedev against parliamentary elections; prosecutors to eye press coverage of financial crisis; Georgi...
Today’s news that Somali pirates have hijacked a Saudi Arabian oil tanker, carrying one quarter of the OPEC nation’s daily production (valued at $100 million), may result in increased cooperation on security of oil shipments between th...
Our Russia correspondent Grigory Pasko talks to the BBC about the opening of the trial of Anna Politkovskaya’s killers: They were things the militia commanders in Chechnya and their bosses in Moscow did not want the outside world to hear abo...
According to this article by Adrian Blomfield at the Telegraph, survey results in Russia are showing that people are feeling even more positive about the economic outlook this month over last: And sure enough, at a time when their country is locke...
Last week we published a translation from Izvestia about the potential interest the Russian government may have in supporting an obscure nationalist movement in Transcarpathia, Western Ukraine, including the distribution of passports. Below ...
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