The Power Vertical Prime Minister Vladimir Putin speaks to journalists after a televised questions and answers session in Moscow on December 15. December 15, 2011 The great post-election shuffle continues. Where it will end nobody knows. Kremlin Chief of Staff Sergei Naryshkin resigned today to take a seat in the State Duma, where he is [...]
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December 16, 2011
November 25, 2011
November 24, 2011
Russian military spending to top $30 bln in 2012
Over 1 trillion rubles ($30 billion) will be spent on the provision of arms and military equipment to the Russian Armed Forces next year, Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov said on Thursday. That is 17% up on the previous year, he said. A total of 4 trillion rubles will be earmarked for these purposes over [...]
October 28, 2011
Justice Ministry tables party registration reforms
The Russian Ministry of Justice has prepared a package of legislation amendments that will transfer the powers to register various organizations, including NGOs and political parties to the Federal Tax Service. The Russian Ministry of Justice has prepared a package of legislation amendments that will transfer the powers to register various organizations, including NGOs and [...]
October 11, 2011
Employees at Shipyard Cancel Planned Strike
Employees at Shipyard Cancel Planned Strike By Irina Titova The St. Petersburg Times Published: October 11, 2011 (Issue # 1678) Employees at Baltiisky Zavod, one of the city’s biggest shipyards, dropped their plans to hold a preventive strike planned for Wednesday after their demands were met Tuesday. “Today, after a meeting with Deputy Prime Minister [...]
October 11, 2011
Kudrin to lose all government posts
Alexei Kudrin, former Russian deputy prime minister and finance minister, will lose all the seats on bodies and organizations he held in his capacity as a Russian government official, presidential aide Arkady Dvorkovich said on Tuesday. “Alexei Kudrin will leave the Council on Financial Markets and the National Banking Council, as well as other structures, [...]
September 28, 2011
Putin appoints replacements for Kudrin
First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov will oversee financial issues in the Russian cabinet while Anton Siluanov will become acting finance minister following the dismissal of Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday. He stressed that both appointments had been approved by Medvedev. “This is our joint decision. I hope there [...]
September 28, 2011
Resumption Of Talks On Moldova’s Trandniester Conflict Is Only A Small First Step
The announcement that official talks are to resume in the so-called 5+2 format aimed at resolving Moldova’s long-standing conflict with the breakaway Transdniester region has been hailed as a small but important bit of progress. The official talks have been suspended since early 2006, although unofficial contacts have been kept alive under the auspices of [...]
September 27, 2011
Rebellious Russian Finance Minister Resigns
MOSCOW — Russian Finance Minister Aleksei Kudrin has resigned from his post just hours after a heated public exchange with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, who ordered him to do so. Kudrin, who was also deputy prime minister, confirmed to Russian news agencies that he had stepped down. Kremlin spokesperson Natalia Timakova said Medvedev had accepted [...]
September 27, 2011
Putin Announces Acting Finance Minister
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has named Deputy Finance Minister Anton Siluanov as acting finance minister, replacing Aleksey Kudrin, who was ousted a day earlier. Putin also said that First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov would take over Kudrin’s duties as deputy prime minister, overseeing financial issues in the government. Putin told a cabinet meeting [...]
September 27, 2011
September 23, 2011
OSCE Welcomes Announced Resumption Of Transdniester Talks After Five Years
The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) has welcomed the announced resumption of internationally-mediated talks on the Transdniester dispute. Lithuanian Foreign Minister Audronius Azubalis, the current holder of the OSCE’s rotating presidency, speaking from the United Nations in New York, said the decision to resume the ’5+ 2′ negotiations “is a key step [...]
September 16, 2011
Russia, China can agree on oil price out of court-Sechin
Russia’s Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin said on Friday that an oil supply dispute between Moscow and Beijng could be solved out of court. A source close to the situation has said China’s CNPC had underpaid $40.5 billion to Russia’s Transneft oil pipeline monopoly. Russia’s top crude producer Rosneft has also complained it had not [...]