Dogshit, Reloaded (Free subscription) | 19/11/2008
According to this article by Adrian Blomfield at the Telegraph, survey results in Russia are showing that people are feeling even more positive about the economic outlook this month over last: And sure enough, at a time when their country is locked in its worst financial crisis in a decade, they are more [...]
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 20/11/2008
By Adrian Blomfield in Moscow Last Updated: 3:54PM GMT 20 Nov 2008The owner of Chelsea Football Club narrowly defeated Winnie the Pooh, James Bond and Winston Churchill to win the honour of being permanently identified as the quintessential symbol of Britain in the central Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk.More than 30,000 of the city's residents took part in the poll, which was organised...
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 17/11/2008
By Adrian Blomfield in Moscow Last Updated: 8:47PM GMT 17 Nov 2008 Anna Politkovskaya: An independent voice in Russia Photo: GETTY Two years after Politkovskaya, an outspoken Kremlin critic, was murdered outside her Moscow flat, police have caught neither the man they believe fired the bullet that killed her nor identified the mastermind who ordered the assassination.In a surprising ruling,...
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 13/11/2008
By Adrian Blomfield in MoscowLast Updated: 6:49PM GMT 13 Nov 2008Russian president Dmitry MedvedevThe price of Russian oil fell below $50, a level at which many analysts predicted the central bank would abandon its increasingly forlorn attempts to protect the currency. A barrel of Urals crude was trading as low as $49.30 yesterday.With emerging markets suffering another pounding as Germany...
Today's Mathematics (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
The Kremlin gave Barack Obama a glacial welcome to the world stage when Dmitry Medvedev, the Russian president, ordered the deployment of nuclear-capable missiles on Nato's borders for the first time since the Cold War. By Adrian Blomfield in Moscow telegraph.co.uk Last Updated: 4:57PM GMT 05 Nov 2008 Mr Medvedev said he was ordering the deployment in retaliation to a missile defence...
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 06/11/2008
By Adrian Blomfield in Moscow Last Updated: 9:52PM GMT 06 Nov 2008Dropping the clearest hint yet that Mr Putin, now prime minister, plans a swift return, senior government sources told the respected newspaper Vedomosti that Dmitry Medvedev could step down next year.Mr Medvedev is first expected to usher through constitutional changes that would allow Mr Putin to return to his old job...
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 06/11/2008
By Adrian Blomfield in Moscow Last Updated: 12:33PM GMT 06 Nov 2008The respected business daily Vedomosti quoted unidentified Kremlin sources as saying that Dmitry Medvedev, the current president, could step down after carrying out changes to the constitution that would allow Mr Putin to solidify his grip on power.In his first state of the nation address on Thursday, Mr Medvedev proposed...
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 25/10/2008
By Adrian Blomfield Last Updated: 3:43PM BST 25 Oct 2008Perhaps mindful that Stalin had Kondratiev shot, Russia's finance minister Alexei Kudrin borrowed from a more ancient economist when he tried to explain the meltdown of his country's money markets at a conference earlier this month.That economist was the Joseph of the Old Testament, who interpreted a dream in which the Pharoah saw...
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 16/10/2008
By Bruno Waterfield in Brussels and Adrian Blomfield in Moscow Last Updated: 3:50PM BST 16 Oct 2008 David Miliband, the British Foreign Secretary, warned his Italian, German and French colleagues, over Russian trade talks Photo: PA EU "partnership and co-operation" negotiations were halted last month following the Russian invasion of Georgia in August and Moscow's occupation of the breakaway...
UK Libertarian Party (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
The Sydney Morning Herald , reporting on the international meeting in Evian: Adrian Blomfield in Moscow October 10, 2008 The President of Russia has called on Europe's leaders to create a new world order that would minimise the role of the United States. [...] Gone was the kind of wartime rhetoric that saw Mr Medvedev lash out at the West and describe his Georgian counterpart, Mikheil...
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
Russian human rights activists accuse Nobel Committee of pandering to KremlinRussia's human rights community accused the Nobel Committee of pandering to the Kremlin after Lidia Yusupova, a leading activist who exposed abuses in Chechnya, was overlooked for this year's peace prize. By Adrian Blomfield in Moscow Last Updated: 2:47PM BST 10 Oct 2008 Former Finland President Martti Ahtisaari...
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
By Adrian Blomfield in Moscow Last Updated: 2:24PM BST 10 Oct 2008 Former Finland President Martti Ahtisaari at home with his wife Eeva Irmeli Hyvrinen as he is told that he has received the Nobel Peace Prize Photo: AP The Norwegian Nobel Committee chose Mr Ahtisaari to receive the $1.4 million (£825,000) prize from a field of 197 candidates "for his important efforts, on several continents...
