Month: December 2007

December 31, 2007

Grigory Pasko: Ringing Out the Old

Ringing Out the Old By Grigory Pasko, journalist The new year is a holiday for all. For the president of Russia especially: he was officially appointed to this post precisely on New Year’s Day, in 2000. They say that in this upcoming year, Putin i...
December 31, 2007

New Year’s Eve in Russia, 1965

It’s getting close to 6:30 PM in Moscow, and no doubt some seriously entertaining festivities are already well underway as Russia concludes quite a memorable year. But will the Russians ring in 2008 with the same energy and apprehension as 1...
December 31, 2007

Energy Blast, Dec. 31, 2007

Nord Stream, a consortium led by Russia’s Gazprom, is building a new pipeline that will cost at least €5 billion. The controversial project is facing “growing opposition from governments and private environmental groups.” The Lithuanian pres...
December 31, 2007

Today in Russian Business

The Russian Natural Resources Ministry is hoping to attract $32 billion in investment for six major new projects. Russia’s state-run arms exporter Rosoboronexport has filed a lawsuit against Kommersant newspaper over comments made by Oleg Sh...
December 31, 2007

RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – Dec. 31, 2007

Today: RA show to go ahead; Putin praises Bush’s “personal commitment”; foreign policy will be “constructive” next year, says Lavrov; Russia’s relations with Iran and South Korea could strengthen; Moscow’s property boom; Yukos administrator can “i...
December 30, 2007

Grigory Pasko: Post-election Metastases

Post-election Metastases By Grigory Pasko, journalist Scientists at Cornell University (USA) in 2005 succeeded in identifying the mechanism for the spread of metastases of a cancerous tumor. The scientists established that the appearance of metast...
December 28, 2007

U.S. Presidential Candidates Consider Russia Policy

Often buried under the more sexy foreign policy issues such as terrorism, Iraq, nuclear proliferation, and imported steroids for baseball players, U.S. politicians only rarely speak up about what they believe should be done vis-à-vis Russia. Now, ...
December 28, 2007

Will the Russian Federation Be Guilty of Murder?

In a recent column by Andrew Sullivan in the Sunday Times about the torture and interrogation of Abu Zubaydah by the U.S. Government, an interesting question is posed: if this cover-up of a war crime is finally unraveled, will it eventually lead t...