In an interesting piece of protectionism, Google’s bid to buy Begun, the advertising arm of Russian search engine company Rambler Media, has been blocked by the Russian competition regulator. Russia is the only European...
Since the summer I’ve been putting together roundups of my the most interesting blog posts I’ve read about Russia in the previous month. But, the problem with monthly roundups is that there are hundreds...
The big story of the day in Britain is that senior politicians from both major parties have been caught holidaying with Oleg Deripaska – Russia’s richest man – on his luxury yacht in Corfu....
There seems to have been a bit of a glut of films about Russians in London recently. Partly, I suppose because of the simple fact that Russians are in London in huge numbers, partly...
If you’ve not been keeping up with the Russia blogs recently, this is your chance to gorge yourself on some of the best writing about Russia you’ll see. This month’s roundup of Russia blogs...
Sometimes I think I’ve seen every bonkers story Russia has to throw at me. Then I find out that someone has given Vladimir Putin a tiger cub for his 56th birthday. Old softie that...
Following on from my post below about Russia’s bailout of Iceland, I found out today that Iceland has been bailed out of a tight economic corner by Russia before – well, to be more...
When I heard the news earlier today that Russia is about to loan Iceland $5.4 billion (the equivalent of 1/3 of Iceland’s GDP) to bail out the financially crippled country’s ailing banks, I thought...
If you’re reading this post on the Siberian Light site, rather than by RSS, you’ll notice things look a little different around here. The magazine format that I’ve been using for nearly a year...
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