- 10:14 04/07/2011
Plans for privatization of Greece’s key assets in order to raise cash to cover the country’s soaring national debt begin to take shape, Greek natural gas company DEPA is in the cross hairs of major energy companies, especially Russian gas monopoly Gazprom.
- 10:37 01/07/2011
China and Russia, staunch critics of NATO’s air campaign against Col. Muammer Qaddafi, are subtly increasing pressure on the embattled Libyan leader to agree to a diplomatic resolution of the four month-old crisis in his country that would end his 41 years in office.
- 10:31 01/07/2011
Some observers hope that Prokhorov's business background will lead to profound changes in Russian politics. But the most important ingredient for success in Russia today -- in both business and politics -- is working within and, if possible, with the system.
- 10:48 30/06/2011
Russia’s irritation with its neighbor Belarus became more apparent on Wednesday when a state-controlled television station here broadcast a documentary damning the Belarussian president for mismanaging the economy, after which a Russian utility cut off about an eighth of that country’s electricity, claiming it had not been paid.
- 10:45 30/06/2011
A US and NATO withdrawal raises the stakes in Afghanistan for Pakistan, India, China, Russia, and Iran. It's time for these regional powers to join together in a conference on Afghanistan, based on common concerns and shared interests.
- 10:41 30/06/2011
The Russian shipping company says the melting of the ice cap will eventually allow year round shipments of oil through Russia’s Arctic seas and ease the development of offshore oil fields in the area.
- 09:54 29/06/2011
Call it a tale of two parties with an unfolding plot that may reveal if there are genuine reformist forces inside the Kremlin scheming to undermine the centralized, authoritarian system built by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin during his presidency.
- 09:49 29/06/2011
A high ranking Iranian military official told FARS, a team of Russian experts have paid a visit to Iran in recent days to study the remains of US manufactured drones which have been brought down by Iranian Armed Forces. The drones were reportedly flying within Iranian controlled areas in the Persian Gulf.
- 09:44 29/06/2011
Nearly 32,000 Russians with either temporary or long-term residency permits live in the Czech Republic. This isn’t a lot in a country of 10 million but the official number is swelled by thousands more who commute between Moscow and Prague while taking with them some of their hard-earned money away from what they see as unstable Russia into the safety of Czech-based banks.
- 10:00 28/06/2011
Several times in recent months, Mr. Kudrin — a longtime ally of Prime Minister Vladimir V. Putin — has called for deep domestic changes, arguing that Russia will slip out of the ranks of the world’s leading nations unless it allows for fair competition in politics and business.
- 09:57 28/06/2011
Obama’s kowtowing to Russia on missile defense guarantees a stalemate and long-term missile vulnerability. The Russians will never be satisfied with an American anti-missile system in Europe. Unless Moscow can call the shots, which Washington must refuse.
- 09:53 28/06/2011
The issue remains dynamic and its relative importance ebbs and flows in the context of political developments in Moscow and Tokyo
- 10:31 27/06/2011
Analysts suggest that various permutations might be possible. Mr Putin could stand for president again as United Russia’s candidate, and designate Mr Medvedev prime minister with a specific modernising mandate. Or Mr Putin could endorse Mr Medvedev to stand as the two parties’ joint presidential candidate.
- 10:28 27/06/2011
Metals and mining magnate Mikhail Prokhorov, 46, was elected leader of the liberal 'Right Cause' party on Saturday and immediately promised he would challenge Vladimir Putin's United Russia party and its stultifying stranglehold on power.
- 10:25 27/06/2011
The construction of pipelines is of paramount importance for the energy policies of Washington, Beijing, Brussels, and Moscow, making the design, budgeting, and implementation of pipeline projects always thorny and controversial.
- 09:48 24/06/2011
Always a provincial place, a Russian-speaking corner within Romanian-speaking Moldova, this tiny break-away region has had neither the time nor the resources to acquire the outward trappings of a state.
- 09:39 24/06/2011
USSR cold war design wasn't all ungainly spacecraft and western knock-offs – beneath the yoke of communism, some important lessons about sustainability were being learned
- 10:05 23/06/2011
Is Russia buying this contradictory official line, or is Syria’s geostrategic location blurring the eyes of Russians to the atrocities being committed by the Syrian government? Russia has refused to vote for a UN resolution condemning Syrian violence against its protestors. While the UN resolution is not calling for an intervention, it is interesting to discuss the foreign intervention in the region, the possibility of it in Syria, and why Russia wants to stay on Mr. Assad’s good side.
- 10:01 23/06/2011
For someone supposed to be a puppet, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev is making a surprisingly convincing job of faking autonomy.
