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As Its Arms Industry Withers, Russia Looks Abroad for Weapons

MOSCOW — Ask a Russian what the country makes well, and the answer, more often than not, will be the Kalashnikov rifle. Russian-made cars may be rickety, and its passenger airplanes such fuel-guzzlers that even the country’s flag carrier, Aeroflot, ...

From ANDREW E. KRAMER, The New York Times,  12 Mar 2010

Related Topics: Svetlana Savitskaya,  Aeroflot,  NATO

Yukos Plaintiffs Look Forward to Day in Court

MOSCOW — Yukos Oil had a poor track record defending its rights in Russian courts. Once the largest company in the country, it fell out of favor with the government of then-President Vladimir V. Putin in 2003 and within four years had been bankrupted ...

From ANDREW E. KRAMER, The New York Times,  3 Mar 2010

Related Topics: Vladimir Putin,  European Court of Human Rights,  Southern Methodist University

Ukraine Parliament Seals Prime Minister’s Ouster

MOSCOW — The Parliament in Ukraine passed a vote of no confidence in Prime Minister Yulia V. Tymoshenko on Wednesday, ousting the last of the Orange Revolution leaders from power but almost certainly not from politics. The no-confidence vote was ...

From ANDREW E. KRAMER, The New York Times,  3 Mar 2010

Related Topics: Yulia V Tymoshenko,  International Monetary Fund

World Briefing | Asia: Tajikistan: Observer Says Vote Fell Short of Standards

Parliamentary elections over the weekend fell short of democratic standards because of “a high prevalence” of ballot box stuffing and other problems, the main Western observer mission to the election, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in ...

From ANDREW E. KRAMER, The New York Times,  1 Mar 2010

Putin Questions Dealings of Russian Oligarchs

MOSCOW The business dealings of four of the super-wealthy Russians known as oligarchs slipped into dangerous territory Wednesday when they were upbraided by Prime Minister Vladimir V. Putin in a televised speech. Presiding over a meeting on the ...

From ANDREW E. KRAMER, The New York Times,  24 Feb 2010

Related Topics: Vladimir Putin,  Mikhail Prokhorov,  Bruce Ratner,  Viktor Vekselberg,  Mikhail Khodorkovsky

Ikea Dismisses 2 Executives in Russia

MOSCOW Ikea, the Swedish furniture retailer, has dismissed two senior executives in Russia for allowing a contractor to pay bribe, the company said Monday in a statement, calling the payment “totally unacceptable.” While bribes are common in Russia, ...

From ANDREW E. KRAMER, The New York Times,  15 Feb 2010

Related Topics: Ikea

Pipeline on Floor of Baltic Sea Clears Hurdle

MOSCOW A Russian-German plan to build a pipeline on the floor of the Baltic Sea and detour natural gas around the disruptive politics of Eastern Europe cleared a last major hurdle on Friday. A Finnish regulator, the Regional State Administrative ...

From ANDREW E. KRAMER, The New York Times,  12 Feb 2010

Related Topics: Gerhard Schröder,  Gaz de France

Seeing Trouble in Greece, Baltic States Rethink Euro Plans

RIGA, Latvia The tiny Baltic states have pursued closer integration with Europe with enormous zeal. But the price of monetary union may be giving them pause. Economists and ordinary citizens alike are watching the protests rumbling through the streets ...

From ANDREW E. KRAMER, The New York Times,  11 Feb 2010

Related Topics: International Monetary Fund,  World Bank

World Briefing | Europe: Russia: Cargo of Bear Paws Seized

In what Russian news agencies described as the largest such interdiction of its kind in recent years, Russian border guards seized 447 bear paws from a truck in the Jewish Autonomous Region, near the frontier with China, on Monday. Smuggling wildlife ...

From ANDREW E. KRAMER, The New York Times,  10 Feb 2010

Russian Finance Minister Reveals Plan to Lift Technology

MOSCOW — The Russian finance minister on Wednesday floated a new, top-down approach to catching up with the West in high technology, a problem that has bedeviled the economy here for decades in spite of the country’s rich tradition in science. The ...

From ANDREW E. KRAMER, The New York Times,  3 Feb 2010

Related Topics: Anatoly Chubais,  Edmund S Phelps

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