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02.02.12
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Fueling Voters Turnout
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| By Tai Adelaja |
With just one month to go before Russia's presidential elections, presidential contender Vladimir Putin has pledged new subsidies to farmers in a last-ditch effort to woo the country's 30 million rural voters. The groundswell of middle class protesters in recent weeks has already compelled the Russian prime minister to step up his outreach to his rural supporters. Read more  |
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31.01.12
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All The King??™s Men
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| By Andrew Roth |
| In a week at the Davos World Economic Forum characterized by misgivings over the European economy, the Russian delegation made waves with a series of speeches that painted a bleak picture of the Russian economy and called for greater political competition. The delegation, which included liberal heavyweights such as First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov and ex-Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin, may have been trying to influence Putin??™s potential economic platform as president. But was Davos the right place to do that? Read more |
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19.01.12
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Revving Up To Speed
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| By Tai Adelaja |
| The Russian government has been making subtle efforts to persuade foreign automakers to invest in the country's booming auto industry, even as it plans to slam the door on the industry's tax incentive regime later this year. In an unexpected move, the Ministry of Economic Development said it has decided to extend the limitation period for foreign automakers that have signed on to the country's industry-assembly regime but could not take full advantage of the tax incentive because of the global financial crisis. Read more |
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18.01.12
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Round And Round
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| By Eric Sliva |
| If the opposition has its way, Russians will have two opportunities this year to express their opinions about Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s intention to resume the presidency after a four-year hiatus. With its goal of limiting Putin to less than 50 percent of the vote in the presidential election on March 4, the opposition aims to trigger the first presidential run-off election since 1996, and to send a strong signal of voter dissatisfaction. Read more |
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13.01.12
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Russia Profile Weekly Experts Panel: Time To Attack Iran?
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| Introduced by Vladimir Frolov |
| Tensions have been rising between Iran and the West in the standoff over Iran's clandestine pursuit of nuclear weapons. The United States, Britain and Canada pledged in November to ratchet up pressure on Tehran after the International Atomic Energy Agency published a report suggesting that Iran is pursuing nuclear weapons. Iran has already been subjected to four rounds of UN sanctions because of its refusal to halt controversial nuclear activities. Read more |
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12.01.12
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Business Mood Swings
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| By Tai Adelaja |
| Russian business people have been gazing into the future, and what they see is a long dark tunnel without a glimmer of light, a new report has found. Among Russian top business executives and entrepreneurs polled for a quarterly report conducted by Grant Thornton late last year, optimism for any kind of business undertaking in Russia has all but evaporated. Read more |
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26.12.11
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Turning The Page
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| By Dan Peleschuk |
| Twenty years ago today, Russia opened a new chapter and lived out its first, post-Soviet day of independence. Yet while most of the successor states regularly mark their anniversaries of independence from the Soviet Union, celebrations of the event – or even recognition of it – in Russia are virtually nowhere to be found. Read more |
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22.12.11
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Show Me The Money
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| By Dan Peleschuk |
| The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) handed a victory to families of hostages taken during the 2002 terrorist siege of Moscow’s Dubrovka theater, ordering the Russian government to financially compensate them for the botched rescue operation, in which more than 100 people died. Read more |
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20.12.11
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Notorious Nemtsov
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| By Dan Peleschuk |
| On Monday Russian tabloid portal Life News leaked recordings of private telephone conversations between opposition leader Boris Nemtsov and a handful of other activists, in which Nemtsov viciously derided his fellow opposition leaders and even criticized the peaceful protesters who flocked to Moscow’s Bolotnaya Square two weeks ago. Read more |
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16.12.11
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Russia Profile Weekly Experts Panel: From Arab Spring To Russian Winter?
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| Introduced by Vladimir Frolov |
| Tens of thousands of ordinary Russians turned up for a rally in downtown Moscow on December 10 to protest against massive vote rigging during the December 4 parliamentary elections. They called for a cancelation of the election results, a new election and for election officials to be fired. Is this the end of Putin’s stability? Is Russia on the brink of a tectonic societal shift? Read more |
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