Omsk Oblast

Is There a Way Forward in U.S.-Russian Relations?

By Kara Flook The advent of a new administration in Washington provides an opportunity to address the deep strains in the U.S.-Russian relationship. At an AEI conference on November 13, policymakers and analysts from the United...

NATO FMs Meeting & Georgian, Ukrainian Bids

By Brian Whitmore Eight months ago at its summit in Bucharest, a deeply divided NATO alliance postponed a tough decision on giving Georgia and Ukraine a formal road map to membership. As NATO foreign ministers gather for a...

Moscow officials place blame for Cherepanov death

Moscow regional prosecutors have blamed an ice arena manager and a hockey club director for negligence in the death of rising Russian star Alexei Cherepanov. Prosecutors said in a statement posted on their Web site Tuesday that...

How a Russian-Norwegian mobile partnership turned frosty

When a dispute between two cellphone companies, Telenor of Norway and Altimo of Russia, returned to court recently, it seemed fitting that one of the settings was the Siberian city of Omsk, home of a Soviet-era labor camp. In...

Wine from Sonoma, California

Wine is a passion. This infatuation with making superlative wine in the picturesque Sonoma Valley, whose character is derived from the unique climate and specialized soils, is what lead to the creation of one of the region’s...

Russia, Ukraine: Party News

The Ivanov Report writes about last week's 10th Congress of the ruling United Russia party: “The victors have suddenly realized that as the ‘leading political force of the country', it's their job to deal with the crisis and...

Belarus: The Identity Debate

The Ivanov Report writes about last week's 10th Congress of the ruling United Russia party: “The victors have suddenly realized that as the ‘leading political force of the country', it's their job to deal with the crisis and...

Amazing race to the finish

THE Amazing Race Asia 3 (Tara 3) premiered on Sept 11 on the AXN Channel and saw the last team finishing the final leg on Nov 20. Filming actually took place in the middle of the year and saw 10 teams traverse 21,000km across...

Siberian oil town hit by downturn

Just months ago, Russian officials were adamant that Russia was immune from the current financial crisis. Since then, the Russian stock market has plunged 70 percent, oil prices fell by two-thirds and the crisis has started to...

Volkswagen plant plans to stop production for Christmas holidays, according to the Governor of...

Interfax "Volkswagen will Prolong Vacation", Vedomosti, N225, November 27, 2008, p.B1 Foreign car producers, which settled in Russia, have no intentions to decrease their plans Andrei Biryukov, Ekaterina Sorokovaya "Car of...

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