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04/03/2008
Paid access archiveNew Chance to Make the Roads Safer
If any country has a record of poor road safety, it is certainly Russia. Perhaps this is what qualifies Russia to host a landmark conference on the issue next year.
A Labor Code in Bad Need of Revision
By Boris Kagarlitsky
The labor movement has been making a lot of headlines lately. Workers at multinational companies were the first to strike for higher wages, but now the conflict has spread to Russian firms as well. For example, in mid-March, workers at the KamAZ automotive construction plant -- the former flagship of Soviet industry -- walked out on their jobs, and by the end of the month, bauxite miners in the Urals were also striking.
The Russophobia Card
By Andrei Tsygankov
The U.S. presidential candidates are increasingly playing the Russophobia card in their campaigns. In addressing Russia, Senators John McCain and Hillary Clinton have resorted to insulting President Vladimir Putin as a KGB spy who has no soul. Russophobia is truly back into fashion, as Senator Joseph Biden admitted last week in a comment published in The Wall Street Journal.
Where Time Stands Still
By Maria Antonova
A visit to the village of Belozersk is a trip to a time when life was more simple.
- Palochki's Local Debut
- Bush, Rice Prodded on Litvinenko
- Ex-Kremlin Reporter Gets Asylum
- Woman, 2 Children Leave Cave
- Duma Approves Referendum Bill
- Gutseriyev Said to Be in Britain
- TNK-BP Raid Seen Linked to Gazprom
- Medvedev Plans More Homes
- Evraz Profit Rises 56% on Higher Steel Prices
- Dixy Announces 86% Jump in '07 Net Profit
- News in Brief
- Business in Brief
- U.S. Seeks More Troops for Afghanistan
- Saakashvili Comments Denied
- Belarus Snubs NATO Summit
- Kosovar Serbs Get First Aid Shipment
- Suspect Detained in British School Attack
- Starovoitova Investigation Suspended
- Fear and Resolve in RusAl Pit Strike
- Bucharest Hears Bush, Waits for Putin
- Armed Raid Opens Eldorado Investigation
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