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Putin's Biggest Critic Says Russian Police Wait For Him To Walk Out His Door

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Ten days after cutting off his monitoring tag and declaring he would not stay under house arrest, Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny says Russian police are standing by while he walks out...

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The Head Of Russia's Largest Private Oil Company Thinks Oil Could Go To $25

The CEO of Lukoil, Russia's largest private oil company, told a conference on Friday that oil could go as low as $25 a barrel.Speaking at the Gaidar Economic forum in Moscow, Vagit Alekperov said that...

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Russian Forests Are Hugely Important To Stopping Climate Change

Russia’s forests may lose their power to help curb global warming without stronger domestic protection and a place in a new international climate change deal, scientists have warned.Russia has 19...

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The US's Rhetoric On Assad Is Shifting In The Dictator's Favor

On Wednesday, the American secretary of state, John Kerry, met with the United Nations envoy to Syria, Staffan de Mistura, in Geneva.De Mistura must have been happy to hear Kerry praise his efforts and...

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Moody's Just Downgraded Russia (RSX, RUB)

Moody's just downgraded Russia's government bond rating from Baa2 to Baa3 and placed this rating on review for further downgrade.Factors included the crash in oil prices and the decline in the Russian...

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The EU Is Heading Into Battle

Energy, the European Commission believes, should flow freely to and between EU members. So Maros Sefcovic, the energy commissioner, has two adversaries. One is Russia, which is trying to keep its...

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America Is In The Middle Of A New Cold War

In this excerpt from The Russia-China Axis: The New Cold War And America's Crisis Of Leadership authors Douglas E. Schoen and Melik Kaylan argue that only a rebirth of American global leadership can...

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​Lithuania Is Publishing A Russian Invasion Survival Manual For Its Citizens

Lithuania is publishing a manual to advise its citizens on how to survive a war on its soil as concerns grow that Russia's intervention in Ukraine heralds increased assertiveness in its tiny Baltic...

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Russia's Net Outflows Hit Their Highest Level Ever

Net capital outflows from Russia were at their highest level ever in 2014.Net outflows by companies and banks reached $151.5 billion in 2014, more than two times as much as in 2013, according to the...

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Russia Is Reinforcing 3 Crucial Geopolitical Frontlines

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed off on a new military doctrine for the country on Dec. 26 last year.The new doctrine, beyond explicitly stating that NATO's expansion was the main external...

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Russia Is Struggling To Recruit Soldiers From Former Soviet Republics

If you're between 18 and 30 years old, speak Russian, and have no criminal record, you are in for some good news. You are eligible to enlist in the Russian army.In what is seen as move to boost its...

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Armenian Baby Becomes Seventh Casualty Of Killing Spree Blamed On Russian...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - A six-month-old boy became the seventh member of an Armenian family on Monday to die after a killing spree blamed on a Russian soldier serving at a military base in the tiny Caucasus...

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EU Foreign Ministers: There Is 'No Normalization' Of Relations With Russia...

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union foreign ministers said on Monday there were no grounds to lift economic sanctions against Russia despite conciliatory proposals from the EU's foreign policy chief,...

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Chinese And Russian Warplanes Are Prompting Japan To Scramble Jets At A...

Japan says it is scrambling its fighter jets at a record pace to confront Chinese and Russian warplanes in or near its airspace.The Defense Ministry said on January 20 that Japanese fighters scrambled...

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Russia And Iran Just Got Even Closer

Russia and Iran are aligning more and more.In Tehran on Tuesday, Russian defense minister Sergei Shoigu and his Iranian counterpart, defense minister Hossein Dehghan, signed an agreement on "military...

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US Oil Giant Schlumberger Just Struck A $1.7 Billion Deal In Russia (RSX,...

US oil-services company Schlumberger just invested in Russia's largest onshore drilling firm.Schlumberger, the world's biggest oil-services company by market cap, announced on Tuesday that it agreed to...

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Ukraine: Russian-Backed Separatists Just Made Another Land Grab

KIEV (Reuters) - Ukraine on Tuesday accused pro-Russian separatists of taking advantage of a ceasefire deal signed last September to seize more territory in the east and said Kiev would demand its...

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Russian TV Appeared To Show Russian Marines Inside A Contested Ukraine Airport

Video footage has emerged from Russian state-controlled television reportedly shot inside the Donetsk airport in eastern Ukraine and showing troops with the insignia of the Russian Naval Infantry, or...

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Russia Is Sending Some Serious Weaponry To The Arctic

Russia has moved some advanced air defense systems to the Arctic in order to increase the capabilities of the country's Northern Fleet, according to Russia's Sputnik News."A division of air defense of...

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Russian Robot Warrior Drives In A Circle In Front Of Putin

Killer robots are a reliable staple of science fiction, a culmination of humanity’s technological prowess turned against civilization as a cruel, cosmic joke. While this is a good premise for a movie,...

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