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One Year Later, Mavrodi's MMM-2011 Is Nobody's ProblemFederal officials went on radio shows and gave interviews to warn the public about Sergei Mavrodi's MMM-2011. But 12 months later, in an interview with The Moscow Times, Mavrodi said authorities “won’t succeed” in shutting him down. |
Fast VTB Growth Raises EyebrowsBy Howard Amos
State-controlled bank VTB has been at the heart of the state's expanding presence in the domestic financial market, but industry insiders and ex-employees are critical of the bank. |
Russia Abroad: In Ethiopia, Russian Is the Language of HealingAddis Ababa is home to the last Russian Red Cross outpost abroad, a remnant of a network that, in its Soviet heyday, included locales such as Pyongyang and Beijing. |
As Business Becomes More Civil, So Do Its State Relations"Roofs" with criminal connections or extravagant lifestyles, common in the 1990s, are being replaced by worldly technocrats and former government officials. |
Russia Abroad: Banya Finds an Appreciative New AudienceWell muscled and menacing at first glance, former Soviet soldier Pavel Dukhin might be the last person you'd want to have beat you with tree branches, although that is exactly what his job is. |
Hopes Raised As Court Frees EntrepreneurThe country's courts may finally be heeding orders from the Kremlin to end a crackdown on the business community, judging by the surprise ruling to avoid jailing a gravely ill entrepreneur after her conviction on fraud charges. |
Medvedev Promises Belated ReformsPresident Dmitry Medvedev used his final presidential address to promise a slew of radical political reforms including a return to gubernatorial elections and the creation of an editorially independent, publicly funded television station. |
Wine Culture Takes RootFinding good wine at a reasonable price in Russia is like finding a needle in a haystack, while limited growth in demand, new alcohol consumption rules and even the changing winds of international politics have all complicated the import industry. |
Wait for WTO Membership Is OverThe World Trade Organization officially welcomed Russia as a member Friday, bringing the curtain down on the country's 18-year accession process. |
New Duma Draws From Politburo and PlayboyA former Playboy playmate, a former Politburo member, a champion boxer, actors and scores of businessmen are among the motley crew of deputies-elect to the new State Duma, which will convene for the first time next week. |
Protest Called Amazing, What’s Next?Saturday's rally in Moscow marked an "amazing," even unprecedented, event for modern Russia. Yet though euphoria was palpable in the air, it came with a tinge of pessimism, fueled by the simple question: "What's next?" |
Kremlin in the HeadlightsEditorial
In the week after the State Duma elections, many proposals were voiced on how the Kremlin could have defused the tensions that followed and prevented them from culminating in the biggest anti-government rally in Moscow since 1993. |
Putin 2.0 Could Be More Autocratic Than 1.0The Putin era is ending, but the authorities are doing everything possible to make it a dramatic finale. |
A 'Russian' Writer Born in the U.S.On most days, author Michael Cunningham sits in his studio in lower Manhattan and writes. |
Yaroslavl Struggles to Carry On After CrashIn a city where boys want to be hockey players, and girls want to marry hockey players, it's not uncommon to see a young mother in high heels carrying her sleeping toddler to the rink in the middle of winter. Like everybody in this hockey town, she knows that it takes a long time to make a champion. |
