Economic losses out of military-political conflicts can be measured precisely in rubles: the outflow of capital, reduction of the stock market’s capitalization, amounts from the budget spent on the war and on liquidation of its...

The western establishment, including business circles, counted to see a liberal kind of president in Medvedev, and initially he did not disappoint them. However, after he signed the decree about recognition of Abkhazia and the South...

Vladimir Putin appears to have got used to his position of prime minister and to have set about the manual control over Russian economy, like he built the vertical of power in the manual mode. First, he headed the front of the advocates of...

The prices for tickets by Russian airlines have increased for 20-30% since the beginning of the year. It’s no wonder, as a ton of kerosene in Russia costs $1570, while in the USA it is $1300 and in Europe $1270. This oddity was noted not...

The main economic event of the last week was continuation of the discussion about perspectives of the lowering of the VAT from 18% to 12%. The deputy prime minister and minister of finance Alexei Kudrin turned out to be the chief newsmaker...

As it was expected, a decision was taken at the first meeting of the government chaired by Putin about tax benefits for the oil sector. In particular, non-taxable cost of the barrel of oil during calculation of the tax for extracting the...

The world had not had such a set of economic troubles similar to that we dealt with in 2008. The collapse of the US mortgage market last summer caused the economic decline and downfall of the mortgage pyramid of the Wall Street. The global...

The questions of seats arrangement in the new cabinet of Vladimir Putin or distribution of powers between Prime Minister’s apparatus and President’s Administration, and even the question of which posts Dmitry Medvedev will be able to fill...

In its previous issue Novaya Gazeta told that one of the most noticeable events of the last pre-election week was presentation of the economic report prepared by a collective of authors from the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS). The...

It might seem strange, but messages by economic experts were most notable political event of the pre-election week. First to be presented to the public was the economic report prepared by a collective of authors from Russian Academy of...

Speaking at the forum of RSPP in the city of Krasnodar, the presidential candidate Dmitry Medvedev put an emphasis again on the point that the state capitalism is impossible in the 21st century, while state corporations are necessary and...

Of course, Leonid Kudrin being the deputy prime minister and the financial minister, must say everywhere that the global crisis has not affected and will not affect Russia in any way. Especially he must say this in Davos and before the...

Not long ago I gave a lecture to journalists from province. I was reasoning whether it is possible to be a free journalist in the country that is not free. A young girl raised her hand and apologized as she was going to ask me a question...

Jerome Kerviel did not have any intention to ruin Societe Generale, the flagship of the French financial capitalism. Judging from his own statements and those by his lawyers, he did not put a cent into his pocket, out of almost 5 Bn euros...

In 2005 Lilia Shevtsova from Moscow Carnegie Center, a permanent author in Novaya Gazeta, acted brilliantly as the newspaper’s special correspondent at Davos forum (Vladimir Ryzhkov acted as another special correspondent then). In 2006 the...