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Doing Business in Russia: German Companies Positive About the Future

By Ian Pryde on December 12, 2013 in Business, Economy, Germany, Russia

According to a survey on the Russian business climate carried out by the German-Russian Chamber of Commerce in September 2013, two-thirds of German companies working in Russia remain affected by trade restrictions despite Russia’s accession to the W.T.O. Even […]

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Africa and Russia: Victimhood vs. Empowerment?

By Ian Pryde on March 07, 2013 in Africa, China, Economy, Europe, India, Russia

In his writeup of this year’s gathering of politicians and businessmen in Davos (“Complacency in a Leaderless, Multipolar World,” The Moscow Times, Feb. 12, 2013), Nobel laureate in economics Joseph Stiglitz quotes with apparent approval a development expert who claimed […]

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A democratic deficit – or just sheer apathy?

By Ian Pryde on December 08, 2011 in Germany, Politics, Russia, United States

While people in the streets at first glance seems to indicate a movement for political change, it may only indicate how easy it is to organize large groups using the […]

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Nord Stream – sign of Russia’s maturity?

By Ian Pryde on November 10, 2011 in Economy, Energy, Gas, Germany, Russia

The inauguration of the long-anticipated Nord Stream pipeline gave both Russia and EU representatives the opportunity to say nice things about the other – but the actions behind the words […]

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Сами с усами

By Ian Pryde on June 11, 2010 in Economy, Japan, Russia, Technology, The West, United Kingdom

Если Россия все еще хочет жить своим умом – это ее выбор Ключевой вопрос – может ли Россия избавиться от своего многовекового пофигизма и выйти на уровень Индии и Китая, […]

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Toyota will bounce back

By Ian Pryde on January 29, 2010 in Car Industry, Germany, Japan, Kyrgyz Republic, United States

Toyota’s recall of nearly 2 million cars doesn’t look good, but any company that records its first loss some 70 years after its foundation must be world class. In late […]

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Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they’re not after you! Britain, Russia and the Lugovoi Affair

By Ian Pryde on July 20, 2007 in International Relations/Geopolitics, Russia, United Kingdom

As I forecast in recent columns, Moscow would likely find the West ranged against it in the event of major bilateral problems with individual countries – and it is indeed […]

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Putin goes to Europe

By Ian Pryde on May 29, 2007 in Economy, Europe, International Relations/Geopolitics, Russia, The West

MOSCOW. (Ian Pryde for RIA Novosti) – Following the visits to Moscow by the German and American foreign ministers and the EU-Russia summit in Samara, Russia and the West agreed […]

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Energy nexus: Russia and Central Asia

By Ian Pryde on May 14, 2007 in Azerbaijan, Central Asia, Energy, Europe, Gas, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Oil, Poland, Russia, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan

MOSCOW. (Ian Pryde for RIA-Novosti) – Last Thursday, Russia’s President Putin arrived in Astana, the capital of Kazakhstan, for the start of a week-long visit to Central Asia, which will […]

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Post-imperial attitudes: Britain after the war and Russia today

By Ian Pryde on March 20, 2007 in Asia, China, Europe, International Relations/Geopolitics, Japan, Russia, Taiwan, United Kingdom

MOSCOW. (Ian Pryde for RIA Novosti) – In November 1992, the president of the Kyrgyz Republic, Askar Akayev, a research physicist before going into politics, told me in an interview […]

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