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Pussy Riot reveals the fault line

April 20, 2012 Konstantin von Eggert
The punk provocateurs put the country’s contradictions in clear relief. But so far, there are only losers

Strange bedfellows escaping the unipolar world

April 19, 2012 Dmitry Babich
Can BRICS, an organization uniting such different countries as Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, become a player in international politics?

Russia takes a two-pronged approach to space exploration

April 17, 2012 Ilya Kramnik
Roskosmos intends to join the ExoMars program, but puts conditions on its participation that will help develop Russia’s domestic space industry

BRICS anticipates new challenges

April 10, 2012 Andrei Ilyashenko, Dmitry Sedov
As the BRICS countries struggle for influence, Russian experts - Andrei Ilyashenko and Dmitry Sedov - assess the problems the emerging geopolitical bloc faces

Annan’s Syria plan has no chance

April 10, 2012 Yevgeny Satanovsky
Although the plan devised by Kofi Annan, who is now serving as an UN-Arab League special envoy to Syria has been supported by the United States and Russia, it is unrealizable, like all other theories that are at odds with the logic of civil wars

PPPs Capitalize on Kazan’s Entrepreneurial Spark

April 10, 2012 James Weber, The Kazan Herald
The entrepreneurial nature of Tatarstan’s population makes Kazan and the surrounding region a mecca for new business growth

The charming effect on global politics

April 9, 2012 Jagannath P. Panda
Has the Delhi BRICS summit signaled a new wave of power politics in a multipolar world order?

Russian TV journalists pester McFaul

April 4, 2012 Eugene Ivanov
U.S. Ambassador Michael McFaul complains that Russian reporters from the state-sponsored NTV channel pursue him relentlessly

Pundits keep making forecats about Syria's future

April 3, 2012 Yevgeny Shestakov, Konstantin von Eggert
Moscow expresses displeasure with Syria’s leadership. Does it mean Russia will reassess the situation in the Middle East’s troublesome region?

No arab spring in Russian winter

April 2, 2012 Dmitry Babich
The headlines from the Western media outlets such as “Putin’s pyrrhic victory” and “The end of Putinism?” were rampant, but was there ever any real chance of the so-called “snow revolution” toppling Putin?

Putin 3.0: what can we expect?

April 2, 2012 Leonid Radzikhovsky
What will Putin’s new presidential term – officially the third, but actually the fourth – be like? Will we see Putin 2.0 reloaded or will the regime collapse and the world witness a third Russian revolution in 100 years?

What does the weather mean for Russian agriculture?

March 29, 2012 Alexander Chetverikov
Some have suggested that Russia should welcome global warming as it would make more of the country’s land farmable, but that approach is a little naïve

Open-mike diplomacy

March 28, 2012 Eugene Ivanov
The Seoul Nuclear Security Symposium provided a set stage for the last summit between Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and his U.S. counterpart Barack Obama

Will Putin 2.0 mean a return to the prosperity of the 2000s?

March 28, 2012 Ian Pryde
With Vladimir Putin’s inauguration scheduled for May 7, 2012, a number of investment analysts in Moscow have reached a rather odd conclusion about the future Russian president’s economic policies

What kind of capitalism has Russia built?

March 23, 2012 Felix Goryunov
Not a Western free market, and not a China-style economy controlled from the top-down, Russia’s economic model benefits the few at the expense of almost everything else

Russia may benefit from the brain drain

March 22, 2012 Oleg Alekseev
The brain drain problem is an indisputable fact, but we should not try to stop it.

Return on Investment

March 22, 2012 Eugene Ivanov
What will the U.S. government reap from the money it is now sowing into a fund to promote democracy in Russia?

A new way to get what you want

March 20, 2012 Ian Pryde
Can Russia develop a culture of professional lobbyists – and is it even a good idea?

Back to the Moon: When, Why and How?

March 20, 2012 Ilya Kramnik
Roskosmos head Vladimir Popovkin announced that Russia was expected to reach the moon by 2020 which brought about a sensation

Russia’s post-election economy

March 19, 2012 Andrei Nechayev
Now that the elections are over, the government must take a hard look at the promises that have been made, the reforms that need to be carried out, and where the money will come to pay for them
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