Author: Christopher Kenneth
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Russia on the brink of ‘a tectonic shift’ in elite’s consciousnessAttacking the state's spending spree, ex-Russian Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin dismissed the Kremlin's strategy of radical escalation of expenditures ‘a fantasy’... |
Oligarchs in classrooms will highlight collective retrograde amnesia among Russian eliteCalling on the oligarchs to share their questionable success stories with pupils is tantamount to giving them a legal sanctimony and whitewashing their shady pasts... |
Kremlin launches radical overhaul of state corporations’ boardroom compositionsAnnouncing the new policy, President Medvedev noted that the move was aimed at winning back the trust and whipping up the interest of investors in the economy... |
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With the Golden jubilee behind, Nigeria now en-route to its first statehood centennialSpeaking at his country's 51st independence anniversary, the Nigerian ambassador to Russia highlighted the occasion as another milestone in his nation's history... |
Belarus economic disaster coverage shows Russia’s press at its finest bestRussian media CEOs, by raising the standard of their Belarus economic debacle coverage to a sky-high level, have set for themselves a new yardstick... |
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Official presentation of the ‘Eighth Wonder of the World’ project in MoscowAccording to the people behind this unique project, the design of ‘The Kind Angel’ monument can rightly lay a justified claim to be ‘a modern Eighth Wonder of the World’... |
Kerimov’s Arab sheiks-style Anji investments good for Russian footballThe multibillionaire's commitment to Anji is underscored by the names of famous players that have been brought to the club in record transfer-breaking deals... |
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Russia pledges support for Ecuador’s innovative global ecology initiativeThe initiative envisages Ecuador’s voluntary refusal to extract oil from its rich oil deposits in Yasuni to preserve Earth's ecology... |
Business as usual, as bureaucrats typically ignore Kremlin’s BoD ban against officialsThe appointment of First Deputy Prime Minister Shuvalov and other federal and regional officials to the VVTs board runs contrary to the Kremlin’s ban against bureaucrats sitting on state firms' BoDs... |
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UN’s ardent advocate for a world free of HIV and related problemsIn this interview, given at the sidelines of the International MDG-6 Forum in Moscow, UNAIDS executive director Michel Sidibe, who also doubles as the UN Under-Secretary-General, highlighted UNAIDS’ efforts and measures to achieve MDG-6 goals... |
Volga ship catastrophe once again highlights Russia’s ‘wild capitalism’ at its worstThe most heartbreaking thing is that such negative practices and business modus operandi are the ‘norms rather than notable exceptions’ in Russia... |
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Air France’s ‘Action Plan for Russia’ success places it in a vantage positionThe enormous work done within this policy has boosted the overall customer satisfaction with the airline’s services by as much as 10% within a year... |
Unification of Russia and Europe via oriental medicine clinics projectFatima Zakharova, the author and chief coordinator of the project, says the goal is to set up oriental medical centers under the Harmony brand across Europe... |
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Yandex IPO marks full internationalization of Russia’s search engine marketWhile Yandex was not the first Russian Internet company to float its stocks on international exchanges, it was its IPO that drew the largest global attention... |
Japan’s tragedy and Chernobyl 25th anniversary question atomic energy necessityThis tragedy is one of the few misfortunes in human history, whose intensity and utter horridness of unprecedented destruction of lives never diminish with time... |
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Russia’s rosy future as depicted in Prime Minister Putin’s State Duma reportA successful realization of the ‘Strategy-2020’ programs is expected to leapfrog Russia in terms of the volume of GDP into top five leading global economies by 2020... |
Russian tandem’s conflicting presidential ambitions put the elite on edgeThe uncertainty over the tandem's plans for 2012 has forced the elite to sit on the fence, fearing to making a fatal false start by backing the ‘wrong horse’ in the race... |
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Humanitarian interventions are not licenses for mass urban massacresThe West, since the Soviet demise, has been behaving as if it had obtained the ultimate license for ‘justifiable murders’ across the globe in the name of democracy... |
Russian tycoons’ deep-rooted ‘investophobia’ harmful to businesses and innovationsThe imprisonment and forced exile some of the nation's most influential CEOs have only aggravated the complicated relations between the Russian authorities and businesses... |
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Reset initiative author says the policy benefits Russia, U.S. and the worldCiting new data highlighting ‘the palpable thaw’ in the Russian-U.S. ties, Biden said the reduction in political tension has led to dramatic softening in bilateral relations... |
Medvedev presents Russia’s resurgent postcrisis economy to Davos audienceThe president highlighted Russia’s resurgent $1.5trln postcrisis economy and its other uniquely competitive advantages as one of the best performing emerging markets... |
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Undaunted Kremlin announces more extreme measures against perennial corruptionThe Kremlin’s daunting task is further complicated by the fact that most Russians have come to see bribe solicitations from bureaucrats as a social norm in the society... |
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