Archive - 2008

Dmitry Medvedev gives his first annual state of the nation speech, and announces that he’d like to extend the Russian Presidential term from 4 to 6 years. So what does the world’s press write about? That...

Welcome to this week’s roundup. Without further ado, here’s my pick of this week’s blog posts about Russia: This week saw Komsomol’s 90th anniversary and everyone’s been writing about it. ...

In an interesting piece of protectionism, Google’s bid to buy Begun, the advertising arm of Russian search engine company Rambler Media, has been blocked by the Russian competition regulator. Russia is the only...

Since the summer I’ve been putting together roundups of my the most interesting blog posts I’ve read about Russia in the previous month. But, the problem with monthly roundups is that there are hundreds of...

There seems to have been a bit of a glut of films about Russians in London recently. Partly, I suppose because of the simple fact that Russians are in London in huge numbers, partly because us Brits are a little bit...

If you’ve not been keeping up with the Russia blogs recently, this is your chance to gorge yourself on some of the best writing about Russia you’ll see. This month’s roundup of Russia blogs is likely...

Sometimes I think I’ve seen every bonkers story Russia has to throw at me.  Then I find out that someone has given Vladimir Putin a tiger cub for his 56th birthday. Old softie that Putin is, the tiger cub will be...

Following on from my post below about Russia’s bailout of Iceland, I found out today that Iceland has been bailed out of a tight economic corner by Russia before – well, to be more precise, by the Soviet...

When I heard the news earlier today that Russia is about to loan Iceland $5.4 billion (the equivalent of 1/3 of Iceland’s GDP) to bail out the financially crippled country’s ailing banks, I thought to...