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The Russian “re-set button” that was grandly announced by President Obama and Secretary of State Clinton in 2009 was a unilateral gesture — and thus it’s no surprise the Bear is still smiling.  Now with President Putin’s unprecedented third term as Russia’s president underway and his decision to skip the G-8 Summit in Camp David [...]

Fri May 18, 2012 6:22am EDT * Values FESCO at more than Thursday’s closing price * Summa lobbying power may unlock Transcontainer deal (Adds analyst comment) By Gleb Stolyarov MOSCOW, May 18 (Reuters) – Russian investment and trading group Summa has agreed with businessman Sergei Generalov to buy control of transport group FESCO for around [...]

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Russia, which wants guarantees it isn’t targeted by a U.S.-led missile shield, is demanding an accord ratified by lawmakers of the world’s two biggest nuclear powers, Deputy Defense Minister Anatoly Antonov said. An agreement providing the guarantees must be drafted by military experts, he said in a May 16 interview at his office in central [...]

Russia’s Micex (INDEXCF) Index headed for the biggest weekly drop this year as Europe’s debt crisis deepened and crude oil, the country’s main export earner, retreated on worse-than-expected U.S. economic data. The 30-stock Micex was little changed at 1,288.02 by 3:06 p.m. in Moscow, poised for a 6.9 percent loss in the week, the most [...]

The crash of a Sukhoi Superjet last week could dampen Russian hopes of reviving a civil aircraft industry that is trying to shake off its reputation for safety problems. Soviet-era Tupolev, Ilyushin and Antonov jets have crashed with alarming frequency in recent years. There are many causes, including pilot error, poor maintenance, bad weather and [...]

The 30-stock Micex Index (INDEXCF) fell 3.5 percent to 1,287.79 by the 6:45 p.m. close in Moscow. Russia’s dollar-denominated RTS Index dropped 4.4 percent to 1,313.43. The following were among the most active stocks in the Russian market today. Stock symbols are in parenthesis. OAO MRSK Holding (MRKH RX) fell 5.1 percent to 2.011 rubles. [...]

It would make more sense to call a brief pause. The decision to set up a missile defense system was a compromise from the start, containing two equally important strategic elements: One, a system to better protect NATO territory against future ballistic threats; two, to cooperate with Russia on planning and implementation of the B.M.D. [...]

Thu May 17, 2012 8:45am EDT * Several oil refineries cut output following wagon ban * Fuel shortages loom in world’s biggest crude producer * Ban could cut domestic oil products supply by 25-30 pct-analyst * Says regulation largely to affect Russia’s Far East (Adds analyst quotes, background) By Alexei Anishchuk and Natalia Chumakova MOSCOW, [...]

Russia’s Micex Index entered a bear market amid concern Greece’s financial crisis is worsening and as OAO Sberbank, the country’s biggest bank, tumbled after a policy maker said lending is stagnating. The 30-stock Micex lost 3.5 percent to 1,287.79 by the close in Moscow. The gauge has declined 21 percent from this year’s March 14 [...]

Russia’s Micex Index (INDEXCF) fell to the lowest level since October as oil dropped after Greek talks to form a coalition government collapsed, raising concern the region’s debt crisis will worsen. The 30-stock Micex Index lost 0.7 percent to 1,335.10 by the close in Moscow. OAO Sberbank, the country’s biggest lender, fell 1.5 percent. OAO [...]

This morning I was reading an article that, even by the standards of National Review Online, was particularly hyperbolic and hysterical. Arthur Herman strongly dislikes Barack Obama, strongly dislikes Russia, and especially dislikes how the former has handled the later. Obama hasn’t just done a bad job, Herman argues, he’s basically been treasonous in doing so. The [...]

MOSCOW — Russia saw $42 billion worth of net capital outflows in the first four months of the year but there are hopes in the markets that may ease and turnaround over the coming months as a new government is installed. The figure reported by Sergei Ignatyev to the Russian Parliament on Wednesday means the [...]

(JAKARTA) — Searchers have found the cockpit voice recorder from a Russian passenger jet that smashed into the side of an Indonesian volcano, killing 45 people. The recording of comments by the plane’s veteran pilots could help explain what caused the crash. The “black box,” collected from the bottom of a 500-meter (1,500-foot) ravine, was [...]

Moscow police broke up a weeklong protest encampment today, but activists just moved it elsewhere, showing authorities they might be in for a hard fight against Russia’s protest movement. By Fred Weir, Correspondent / May 16, 2012 Russian youth opposition protesters, evicted by police from a protest camp at Chistiye Prudy, relax at a new site [...]

Russia, the world’s biggest oil producer, may reduce its export duty on most crude shipments by 6.4 percent from June 1 after Urals prices dropped. The standard duty may decline to $419.80 a metric ton, or $57.27 a barrel, from $448.60 a ton this month, according to Bloomberg calculations based on Finance Ministry data. The [...]

Russia’s new president, Vladimir Putin, has recognized that he does not belong at the G-8 summit. The G-7 should take him at his word. U.S. President Barack Obama needs to face up to two closely related issues: how to treat Russia, and, specifically, how to treat Putin, now that he has returned to office. Obama [...]

It’s part Occupy Wall Street, part Hyde Park Corner, and entirely something new for Russia. The little encampment spontaneously created a week ago by a few hundred mostly young activists in a downtown Moscow park, near the Chistye Prudi metro station, has blossomed into a “democracy preserve” that features free lectures on civics by university [...]

Mon May 14, 2012 11:41pm EDT (Adds details, background) By Nastassia Astrasheuskaya KOROLYOV, Russia May 15 (Reuters) – A Soyuz spaceship carrying two Russians and one American astronaut blasted off for the International Space Station (ISS) on Tuesday after more than a month’s delay over a problem with the hull of the Russian-built capsule. NASA [...]

By Denis Dyomkin MOSCOW | Tue May 15, 2012 1:11pm EDT MOSCOW (Reuters) – A Facebook page dedicated to Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill was launched on Tuesday to feed growing interest in the divisive religious figure who has embodied the church’s thickening ties with newly inaugurated President Vladimir Putin. Kirill has openly supported Putin, whose [...]

Russian stocks tumbled, driving the dollar-denominated RTS Index down more than 20 percent from this year’s high as the slump in oil to a five-month low curbed appetite for equities in the world’s biggest energy exporter. The RTS dropped 3.6 percent to 1,401.73 compared with this year’s March 15 peak of 1,754.81, breaching the threshold [...]

RUSSIA- Russia`s Deputy Foreign Minister Gennady Gatilov said that Russia will foil any UN Security Council resolution that allows military intervention in Syria. In a statement to journalists in Moscow, that al-Qaeda and other allies stand behind the attacks which hit Syria in the past few days. “For us it is absolutely clear that terrorist [...]

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President Vladimir Putin said he is ‘too busy’ to attend the G-8 summit. But Russians say he’s either on edge about recent protests or intends to throw a wrench in the US-Russia ‘reset.’ By Fred Weir, Correspondent / May 14, 2012 Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks at a meeting in the Black Sea resort of Sochi, [...]

PRINCETON — A Foreign Ministry official said Saturday evening that the Russian posture on Iran is improving, but that differences on the issue between Jerusalem and Moscow remain. Ahead of an anticipated visit by Russian President Vladimir Putin, Yacov Livne, director of the Foreign Ministry’s Eurasia department, described a “positive evolution in the Russian attitude [...]

Russian stocks fell for a second day after oil prices slid to the lowest level this year. OAO Lukoil, the country’s biggest non-state crude producer, led declines on the benchmark stock gauge. The 30-stock Micex Index (INDEXCF) retreated 0.4 percent to 1,385.81 by the close in Moscow, paring an earlier slide of 1.4 percent. Lukoil, [...]

By NINIEK KARMINI, Associated Press – 10 hours ago  JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesian special forces and professional climbers scaled down a treacherous ravine on a volcano face Sunday in search of the missing flight recorder that could explain the deadly crash of a Russian-made jetliner. The Sukhoi Superjet-100 had 45 people aboard when it [...]

Diniyar Bilyaletdinov has described being left out of Russia’s Euro 2012 squad as “an unpleasant blow” after Dick Advocaat overlooked him when selecting his shortlist of players for next month’s tournament. The Spartak Moscow midfielder left Everton to return to his homeland in January in a bid to secure his place on the plane to [...]

MOSCOW — The skinny dissident is thrown headfirst into a police van by camouflage-clad officers. Nearby, a dozen bearded men bearing Russian Orthodox crosses and wearing skull-and-crossbones T-shirts cheer on the cops. It’s the latest flare-up in a growing feud pitting supporters of the influential church, which sees itself as the nation’s spiritual guide, against [...]

Russian stocks fell for a second day after oil prices slid to the lowest level this year. OAO Lukoil, the country’s biggest non-state crude producer, led declines on the benchmark stock gauge. The 30-stock Micex Index (INDEXCF) retreated 0.4 percent to 1,385.81 by the close in Moscow, paring an earlier slide of 1.4 percent. Lukoil, [...]

MOSCOW — President Vladimir Putin’s ambition to revive Russia’s aerospace industry will hang on one question dominating the Sukhoi SuperJet crash probe in Indonesia this week: pilot or plane? Investigators have located the remains of the 90-seat Russian-built aircraft that crashed into a mountainside on Wednesday with 45 people on board. Salvage crews also located [...]

Perhaps motivated by the path-breaking investigative research featured on this blog*, the New York Times today has a story about Mitt Romney’s aggressive, strange, and incoherent views on Russia. People, even the Very Serious People who are the NYT’s target demographic, are starting to notice that the Republican presidential nominee has views on Russia that, even [...]

“It was a good rehearsal for London. We saw the Russians, now we have to see the Americans and the Chinese,” said coach Octavian Bellu of the toughest challengers for gold at the London Olympics. Romania was led by Catalina Ponar, a triple gold medalist at the 2004 Olympics, and 15-year-old Larisa Iordache, the rookie [...]

MOSCOW — Vladimir Putin appeared to shed tears of joy the night he won back the presidency in March. After less than a week in office, he may be tempted to shed some in frustration. Since his inauguration on Monday, the man whose 2000-2008 presidency was characterized by steely control and a cowed opposition has [...]

MOSCOW — Russia says it has foiled a plot to attack the host city of Sochi both before and during the 2014 Winter Olympics, announcing Thursday that its agents discovered caches of weapons that included grenade launchers and surface-to-air missiles. Russian officials blamed Chechen separatists and neighboring Georgia for the plot, although Georgian officials denied [...]

MOSCOW — Some 200 activists are camping out in central Moscow to protest the election of Vladimir Putin and the arrest of two opposition leaders. Putin was Russia’s president between 2000 and 2008, when he had to step down and assume a prime minister’s post to avoid term limitations. On Monday, he was inaugurated as [...]

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President Barack Obama will skip a major annual summit of Asia-Pacific nations hosted by Russia in September because of the demands of his reelection campaign, according to Russian media. The White House did not immediately confirm the report. But the news is far from a total surprise: The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit is scheduled [...]

No survivors have been found at the crash site of the Russian Sukhoi Superjet in Indonesia. A key question: Was it pilot error or equipment malfunction? By Tim Hepher and Gleb Stolyarov, Reuters / May 11, 2012 The Sukhoi Superjet-100 takes off from Jakarta, Indonesia, Wednesday, May 9, 2012 on it’s second demonstration flight of the [...]

MOSCOW (Dow Jones)–Russia’s central bank left its key interest rates unchanged for a fifth straight month on Thursday and said those levels are unlikely to change in the near term. The Bank of Russia kept the refinancing rate at 8%, the fixed one-day repurchase rate at 6.25% and the deposit rate at 4%, according to [...]

According to a presidential decree, On Measures to Implement the Russian Federation Foreign Policy signed by Putin, the Russian Foreign Ministry has been instructed to seek a settlement for the dispute over Iran’s nuclear program relying exclusively on political and diplomatic means. The executive order “aims to implement a coherent foreign policy of the Russian [...]

MOSCOW | Thu May 10, 2012 11:07am EDT MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia condemned twin suicide bombings in Syria on Thursday, accusing unspecified foreign countries of encouraging such violence and saying Moscow would not yield to pressure to change its stance on a resolution to the conflict. In a meeting with the Syrian ambassador to Moscow, [...]

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MOSCOW –  Russian agents have foiled terror attack plans on the Black Sea resort of Sochi, host of the 2014 Winter Olympics, authorities said Thursday, blaming Chechen separatists and neighboring Georgia of jointly masterminding the plans. Georgian authorities and security experts, however, called the accusations “paranoid” and “hard to believe.” Russia’s National Anti-Terrorist Committee said [...]

Since Sunday, police have steadily harassed demonstrators opposed to Putin. On Wednesday, protesters used a celebrating city as cover to elude their pursuers. They infiltrated a Communist parade, mingled with families strolling near the Kremlin and finally joined a city-sponsored festival in a park where riot police had routed them the night before. They would [...]

MOSCOW — Moscow police detained several dozen opposition activists who tried to stage a “people’s stroll” through the city Wednesday, state news agency RIA Novosti reported. The report cited an unidentified law enforcement official as saying the arrests were made on Manezh Square adjacent to the Kremlin. According to the report, opposition supporters wearing trademark [...]

BY FLEMMING EMIL HANSEN COPENHAGEN—Brewer Carlsberg A/S Wednesday swung to a loss in the traditionally weak first quarter after sales slumped in Russia and it ramped up marketing and distribution spending ahead of soccer’s European Championships this summer. The first-quarter net loss came to 76 million Danish kroner ($13.3 million), compared with a year-earlier net [...]

By Timothy Heritage and Alissa de Carbonnel MOSCOW, May 9 (Reuters) – President Vladimir Putin, speaking in Moscow’s Red Square with military generals at his side, said he would promote Russia’s might on the world stage in a patriotic speech on Wednesday glorifying the Soviet victory over Germany in World War Two. Two days after [...]

In what is likely to be a terrible blow for Russia’s struggling aviation industry, a Sukhoi SuperJet-100, the first completely new post-Soviet jetliner, went missing during a promotional tour in Indonesia. Skip to next paragraph Fred Weir Correspondent Fred Weir has been a Monitor correspondent, based in Moscow and covering the former Soviet Union, since 1998. [...]