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In praise of … Novaya Gazeta | Editorial
Thursday, 14 June 2012 23:28

The Russian newspaper has angered the country's chief federal investigator with an article he says makes him look ''like mafia'

Alexander Bastrykin, Russia's chief federal investigator, was angry about an article in Novaya Gazeta alleging corruption in a murder trial. It made him and his colleagues look, he said, "like the mafia". Whether or not he...

 
Russian investigator denies threat to journalist
Thursday, 14 June 2012 18:46

Russia's senior investigator has denied threatening the life of a senior Novoya Gazeta journalist and forcing him to flee the country.

Alexander Bastrykin, head of Russia's FBI-style Investigative Committee (SK), does admit arguing with the journalist, Sergei Sokolov. But he says he did not summon him to a private meeting in a forest in order to...

 
Oil prices could drop to $50 - Credit Suisse
Thursday, 14 June 2012 17:20
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The "Lolair" drilling platform from state oil monopoly Petroleos Mexicanos (PEMEX) is seen off the port of Veracruz, Mexico June 7, 2012 (Reuters/Yahir Ceballo)

The worsening economic situation in Europe could bring Brent crude prices down to $50 per barrel this year, according to research prepared by Credit Suisse.

­“Oil demand would deflate s...

 
Kremlin chemicals induced storm to rain on anti-Putin parade, says MP
Thursday, 14 June 2012 13:43

Officials dismiss claims silver iodide was used to dampen protests in Moscow, saying Russia wanted no rain at all

A row has erupted in Moscow after a member of parliament accused the Kremlin of using chemicals to induce the torrential downpours that soaked protesters at an anti-Putin demonstration this week.

Rain on Tuesday drenched tens of...

 
Hugo Chávez announces Kalashnikov and drone production
Thursday, 14 June 2012 09:44

Assembly of assault rifles with help from Russia being done for defence purposes, Venezuelan president says

Venezuela has begun to assemble Kalashnikov assault rifles with help from Russia, and started producing surveillance drones, Hugo Chávez has said.

General Julio Cesar Morales Prieto, president of Venezuela's state-run arms producer, said 3,000...

 
Vanik and Magnitsky vs. Mother Russia
Thursday, 14 June 2012 07:51
The U.S. Congress is ready to adopt a bill to abolish the Jackson-Vanik Amendment by early August. However, the abolition of the amendment is linked to the adoption of the law on sanctions against Russian nationals allegedly involved in the violation of human rights. This is the so-called "Magnitsky list" authored by Senator Benjamin Cardin...
 
The road to Damascus may well run through Moscow | Timothy Garton Ash
Wednesday, 13 June 2012 22:30

The killing of civilians is horrendous, but direct military intervention is unlikely to succeed. Try carrots and sticks instead

I hope that one day ex-president Bashar al-Assad will stand before the international criminal court charged with crimes against humanity. None of the violence used by other forces in what has become Syria's civil war can...

 
Russia, in favor of Iran's presence at conference on Syria
Monday, 11 June 2012 18:04
Russian Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov, denounced that Iran did not participate in the international conference on Syria, as Tehran is an influential state in the region and in Syria. According to Lavrov, an armed offensive against Syria will make instability contagious throughout the region, from the Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf...
 
The Victims Return: Survivors of the Gulag After Stalin by Stephen F Cohen – review
Sunday, 10 June 2012 01:05

Despite the efforts of past regimes, modern Russia is still unwilling to acknowledge the butchery of Stalin's rule

For more than 20 years, one organisation has been chronicling in detail Stalin's mass terror. In Vladimir Putin's bling-charged autocratic Russia, that is no easy task. The offices of Memorial are regularly raided by so-called tax...

 
Russia is playing western democrats for dupes | Nick Cohen
Sunday, 10 June 2012 01:03

Western efforts to find a solution in Syria are floundering thanks to misplaced deference

The failure of the west to utter a threat that might limit the slaughter in Syria is made flesh in the pitiful figure of Michael McFaul, the American ambassador to Moscow. Pitiful, but also ridiculous, because McFaul is a diplomatic Malvolio: so desperate to...

 
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