Alexey Kudrin, former Russian finance minister and confidant of Russian President Vladimir Putin, says the arrest of a high level economic minister is a sea change in Russian politics. “Bringing on charges with bribery against a person in the rank of a minister is a dramatic event for Russia that…
We have been writing for some time that we expect Iran, with its new-found billions courtesy of the Obama administration, to embark on an arms-buying spree from Russia. RIA reports in Moscow on Monday that Russia and Iran are discussing the delivery of T-90 tanks, artillery, planes and helicopters. Viktor…
The atmosphere in Moscow has been euphoric since Donald Trump’s stunning electoral triumph Tuesday. The prevailing wisdom in the Russian capital is that Mr. Trump will bring peace with Russia for the long term, a goal that most everyone in both countries badly desires. But that belief rests on a…
Russia, as with other nations from France to America, has struggled with the concept of maintaining their national identity, as waves of migration threaten the way of life of different peoples everywhere in the Western and historically ‘white’ world. It seems the Kremlin has decided a law declaring a ‘national…
The export of Russian weapons has been critical to Russia’s economy since the imposition of Western economic sanctions for Russia’s annexation of the Crimean Peninsula, and the collapse of crude oil prices on global markets. China has become Russia’s largest customer of armaments, as Russia attempts to replace lost hydrocarbon…
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Former Russian economic minister Alexei Kudrin, once Vladimir Putin’s golden boy, said today that the Russian government has not faced economic realities regarding the economy and the federal budget. “The price of oil fell, we don’t have enough income, and there are problems with growth factors,” Mr. Kudrin told his…
Russia and OPEC have been coordinating recently to attempt to raise the price of crude oil on international markets as the current low prices have devastated the budgets and economies of most oil-producing states like the Russian Federation. The coordinated effort has had limited success. Russia’s Economic Development Minister Aleksey…
Something happened the day in 2012 when Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev passed on to President Vladimir Putin the notorious private message President Obama had asked him to convey — “Tell Vladimir I’ll be more flexible after the election.” That is the exact moment, I believe, when Mr. Putin concluded…
Originally posted in The Baltic Times Duplication of the Crimean conflict in the Baltic countries is impossible, furthermore, there is no separatist sentiment in the region, Russian Ambassador to Estonia Alexander Petrov believes. “Could such a situation be transplanted to the Baltic region? It seems an entirely unrealistic scenario to…