Alexei Kudrin
Alexei Kudrin Rebuilding a Collapsed Country Alexei Leonidovich Kudrin became Russia’s Minister of Finance in 2000 and retained the post for 11 years. As the longest-serving finance minister in post-Soviet…
Read MoreAlexei Kudrin Rebuilding a Collapsed Country Alexei Leonidovich Kudrin became Russia’s Minister of Finance in 2000 and retained the post for 11 years. As the longest-serving finance minister in post-Soviet…
Read MoreEducation in Russia has traditionally been a very important part of life. Mass education there took root with Peter the Great in the beginning of the 18th century. As his…
Read MoreAlexey Navalny is probably the most viable opposition politician to emerge in Russia in the last decade. His supporters point to his efforts to create concrete, effective solutions to corruption…
Read MoreOn 1 December 2005, life took a dramatic turn for 25-year-old, HIV-positive Svetlana Izambaeva. Svetlana, who lives in the small Russian city of Cheboksari, was one of only a few…
Read MoreOnce upon a time, T&B would fly to Paris or London for a breath of air, and our friends would take turns inviting us to all the happening places –…
Read MoreThree of my four grandparents emigrated from Minsk to New York City more than 100 years ago. So I guess that I was destined to reconnect with Russia at some…
Read More“Relax every muscle right now, or you’ll break some bones!” The voice inmy head bounced through my body as I started sliding down the two flights of steps leading to…
Read More2007 is an exciting time to be involved in Russian business. The ruble has become increasingly more valuable and stable, and the government has emphasized new legislation designed to promote…
Read MoreMoscow – President Vladimir Putin, responding to the international public outcry surrounding Russia’s proposed law on NGOs, issued an executive opinion on the bill that, in the words of Yelena…
Read MoreUkraine’s New Ruling Political Parties From left to right: Arseniy Yatsenyuk, Oleksandr Turchynov, and Petro Poroshenko. For more on Ukraine’s political leaders, see our Who’s Who of Ukrainian Politics. Ukraine’s…
Read More“Cultivate Vegetables!” Soviet propaganda ca. 1930. Note the factories in the background The Soviet economy developed under Communist ideals for some seventy-five years. These ideals kept that development focused on…
Read MoreSummary of a speech given by Daniel Satinsky, B.E.A Associates Daniel M. Satinsky, Esq. The information technology (IT) outsourcing industry in Russia is one of the few non-natural resource sectors…
Read MoreMarchers spell out “Russia” in Russian and form a Russian flag for Russia Day. Russia Day is one of the country’s newest holidays and many are still at a loss…
Read MoreMikheil Saakashvili When discussing Georgia, most Americans (if they realize you are not talking about Atlanta) will laud the democratic achievements of that former soviet republic. To many, American-educated Georgian…
Read MoreRiot Police Outside the Kyrgyz White House The March 2005 overthrow of President Askar Akayev in Kyrgyzstan did not immediately revolutionize Kyrgyz politics. The Kyrgyz people initially heralded their “Tulip…
Read MoreOn a park bench in Moscow, I befriended a lively group of young actors from Tallinn, Estonia. They had come to Russia three years earlier to study at the Moscow…
Read MoreBishkek entered its ninth straight day of protests on April 19 with the promise by opposition leaders to dramatically increase the number of demonstrators in the capital. The political opposition…
Read MoreIn recent years, as an important issue in foreign relations between the United States and Russia, the United States has focused on bringing attention to what it asserts is an…
Read MoreThe European continent is diverse. Many of its countries, though smaller than many US states, can be further broken into regions that differ from each other in dominant culture, dialect,…
Read MoreBloc of Petro Poroshenko is united behind President Petro Poroshenko’s goals for Ukraine. The party’s primary objectives include Ukraine’s membership in the EU, a peaceful resolution to the war in…
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