Month: March 2011

March 31, 2011

Grigory Pasko: Russia’s Brain Drain

It would seem I had already become accustomed to the notion that there is practically not one single corner of the earth left where you can’t find a Russian person. From Australia to Iceland, from Brazil to Japan, we are everywhere, sometime...
March 31, 2011

Russian Week Against Homophobia

The Russian LGBT Network has announced that this week is the fifth annual Russian Week Against Homophobia.  Unfortunate timing, then, for United Russia and five of Russia’s other, major registered political parties to have shunned a rou...
March 31, 2011

Russian Week Against Homophobia

The Russian LGBT Network has announced that this week is the fifth annual Russian Week Against Homophobia.  Unfortunate timing, then, for United Russia and five of Russia’s other, major registered political parties to have shunned a rou...
March 31, 2011

2011: A New Horizon for Investment?

Is Dmitry Medvedev ramping up efforts to win the public’s vote ahead of next year’s Presidential elections?  It seems almost absurd to put such a motive behind recent events, given how staged the bigger Russian political moves alw...
March 31, 2011

2011: A New Horizon for Investment?

Is Dmitry Medvedev ramping up efforts to win the public’s vote ahead of next year’s Presidential elections?  It seems almost absurd to put such a motive behind recent events, given how staged the bigger Russian political moves alw...
March 31, 2011

Energy Blast – March 31, 2011

Environmental polluters (‘dirty‘ metals firms in particular) are going to receive higher penalties over the next decade, says Vladimir Putin, with the charge for ‘negative environmental impact‘ to rise in stages, and cut in...
March 31, 2011

Energy Blast – March 31, 2011

Environmental polluters (‘dirty‘ metals firms in particular) are going to receive higher penalties over the next decade, says Vladimir Putin, with the charge for ‘negative environmental impact‘ to rise in stages, and cut in...
March 31, 2011

Today in Russian Business – March 31, 2011

President Dmitry Medvedev has gone on a verbal ‘rampage‘ against the ‘very bad, very bad‘ investment climate, saying that state-run companies should not have ministers on their board of directors, and that this measure woul...
March 31, 2011

RA’s Daily Russian News Blast – March 31, 2011

TODAY: Strategy 31 organizers to turn sights to United Russia; organization raided by police ahead of protests today; new opposition report on corruption; debating the independence of the revived Moscow News; HIV figures rise; Council of Europe to...
March 30, 2011

Strategy 31 Loses Alexeyeva

This month marks the end of Lyudmila Alexeyeva’s involvement in Strategy 31.  The movement, started in July 2009 by Eduard Limonov, held protest rallies at the end of every month that contained 31 days, an emblematic nod to Article 31 o...