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VOICE FROM RUSSIA 2
Acknowledging the Deception
by Jeff Nyquist
Fri, 24 July 2009 15:00:00 GMT
Meet Victor Kalashnikov: former KGB officer, scholar, analyst, and writer. He is married to historian and journalist Marina Kalashnikova, the subject of last week's column. Before the Soviet Union collapsed Victor worked for the KGB in Vienna. After Gorbachev's bizarre abdication in December 1991, Victor found himself drawn into the Presidential administration of Boris Yeltsin on orders of KGB General Yevgeny Primakov. There he became a research director in the Russian Public Policy Center. "So I turned my attention 180 degrees from Europe to Russia," Victor explained. "I was quite enthusiastic to explore what was going on in Russia. The people in the Kremlin came across a lot of surprises and discoveries as to what Russia really was."
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VOICE FROM RUSSIA 1
Marina Kalashnikova's Warning to the West
by Jeff Nyquist
Fri, 17 July 2009 15:00:00 GMT
Meet Marina Kalashnikova: a Moscow-based historian, researcher and journalist. Last August she criticized foreign "experts" for suggesting that a conflict with Moscow will not happen because Russia's elite is too closely associated with the West. According to Kalashnikova, "The West does not care to wake from the dream of its wishful thinking, even when Moscow turns to ... reanimating Stalin's cult of personality together with the ideology of the Cheka [i.e., the secret police]."
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NADYA'S NOTES
Russian News, March 30
by Nadya Banchik
Wed, 15 April 2009 15:00:00 GMT
DOLLAR DOWN — RUBLE UP?
Worldwide speculations against the dollar caused the Russian ruble to rise and brought foreign investors back to the Russian market. Rising oil prices, hardening of the ruble and distrust of the American market have hurt the dollar. Week before last the ruble was up by 3.6 percent to the dollar ($ 1 = R33, 43). According to Emerging Portfolio Fund Research (EPFR), for the first time since early February investment funds for Russia and other CIS countries received some $ 7.4 million of new investments. If investors continue playing the dollar down then investment into the Russian market will increase, Sergey Fundobny, head of the Department of economic analysis at Arbat Capital stock exchange market says.
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