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For Veckans Affärer: In 2010, business paper Euromoney Magazine awarded Russia's Alexei Kudrin finance minister of the year in the wor...

Driving past the Moscow mayor's office at night in the early 1990s, lights were always on in Mayor Popov's office. During the turbul...

What makes it all so hard to understand? That is the question that arises with authoritarian regimes and comprehension of basic political dy...

This weekend past saw the first anniversary of the Estonian Bronze Soldier crisis - over the removal of a soviet WW II monument from central...

An increasing number of surveys rate Russian president Vladimir Putin the richest man in Europe. Putin is allegedly to have amassed enormous...

The pro-Putin youth movement Nashi is to be dissolved as a national organisation, Russian daily newspaper Kommersant reports . The decisio...

Which are the common assets of a nation and who should be allowed to utilise them? This is a question of heated debate for current Russia, a...

Are the Baltic states facing an impending economic crisis? So seems to be the case, due to the current overheating of both Estonian and Latv...

" Russia is a northern country and if temperatures get warmer by two or three degrees Celsius it's not that bad - we could spend le...

Why is it that a WW II-monument repeatedly sparks bilateral crises between Estonia and Russia? This question has, in recent days, gained new...

Yesterday, deputy head of the Russian Central Bank, Andrei Kozlov, died from gunhot wounds protracted when shot down by armed assailants in ...

Who were the oligarchs? The question may seem premature, while Russia's economic élite still exerts disproportionate influence over Russ...