Interesting article by Susan Richards in the Guardian’s Comment is Free calling for more international support to Russia’s protesters, implying an end to the “Faustian pact with Putin, over energy (in Europe) and the “war a...
My 12-year-old son loves to draw. Favorite subjects at different times have been Harry Potter, Spider-Man, anime, and much more. For some reason he never drew Putin, nor Medvedev either. And their wives with dogs and doves he also did not draw. I ...
Russia’s first clean energy project at the Shaturskaya thermal power plant has been submitted to a UN climate panel in a bid to generate Kyoto carbon credits. Bloomberg calls the submission a ‘breakthrough‘. ‘[S...
Boris Levin, the former deputy head of Yevroset, has pleaded guilty to charges of vigilantism, saying he was driven to act by the failure of law enforcement agencies to ‘protect the interests of business‘, but continues to deny charges...
Russia-watchers are no doubt aware of the recent arrest of my good friend Lev Ponomarev. Lev is one of the leading lights of the Russian human rights movement, part of the original perestroika-era generation of human rights advocates whose courage...
Shocking news of the day: Putin plans to stay in politics. And here I thought all those recent publicity stunts were just a prelude to an early retirement. He’s refusing to say, though, whether he’ll run in the 2012 presidential race. ...
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin thinks that the price of gasoline is too high and says he is trying to ‘fight this somehow‘, although the government is apparently planning to raise taxes on fuel next year in order to fund roadbuilding. &...
Vladimir Putin says that the shareholder dispute at Norilsk Nickel ‘is causing damage to the company,‘ but says that the government’s freedom to intervene ‘is limited by the law‘. Russia has no plans to accept I...
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