Politics
In 1991 he held himself upright, walked steadily and spoke loudly, as he did not hear anything. Showing me his vast estate, taking a pretty part of the expensive Connecticut, he led me through the garden and wood to a hill with a...
“It’s America to be blamed for all that!” insist television propagandists and high ranking Russian officials. Well, that’s really something new, as before it was Chubais to be blamed for everything. Though, all that reminds of a senior...
11 September Dmitry Medvedev held a meeting in the Kremlin, dedicated to the “questions of development of the military forces”. The meeting being a secret one, published was only the introductory speech by the President about “making new...
This second time the Rada was dissolved in a different way. Last year, while Yushchenko read aloud his address to the nation, all the ruling coalition was sitting in full body in the parliament, and the journalists in the lobby recalled...
Business
Actions by government and the task of minimization of consequences of the financial crisis have very little in common. First, we need to define what the financial crisis is like in Russia. If we talk of fall of the stock exchange indices,...
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has given his reading of the ways of overcoming the financial crisis. The President has called Europe to making a new global order where the role by the US would be reduced. Right at the moment when the...
The crisis has affected some players in the media market. That way, expenses of “Nezavisimaya Gazeta” had to be reduced for 30% and about 50 staff members were laid off, as reported by the periodical owner and editor Konstantin Remchukov....
Our elite are no afraid of the crisis, as it enables them to complete the process of sharing out the assets to their advantage. Stability is a good time with one exception: it’s impossible to share out really big money without being...
Mikhail Khodorkovsky: “He’s just afraid of competition”
When Putin says that he “never does his friends in,” this is because he is afraid to get on the wrong side of the siloviki who are close to him. From the correspondence between the editors and Mikhail Khodorkovsky, inmate of Correctional Facility 7 of the Federal Penitentiary Service Directorate for the Republic of Karelia, the city of Segezha
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