Russian Federation
Strike at Russian Ford plant—a sign of renewed struggle by Russian workers
By Vladimir Volkov, November 20, 2007
Workers at the Ford auto plant in Vsevolozhsok, in the St. Petersburg district, carried out a one-day warning strike on November 6—the eve of the 90th anniversary of the 1917 October Revolution....
Worsening conflict between Russia and Georgia driven by Washington-Moscow rivalries
By Simon Whelan, October 30, 2007
A series of recent incidents in Georgia’s two breakaway republics, South Ossetia and Abkhazia, have brought about a further deteroriation in relations between the Putin administration in Russia ...
Russia: Putin launches electoral bid to retain power
By Andrea Peters, October 12, 2007
Russian President Vladimir Putin announced on October 1 that he intends to lead the slate of candidates for the pro-Kremlin political party United Russia in the Duma elections scheduled to take place ...
Ukraine: Parliamentary election fails to resolve political crisis
By Markus Salzmann, October 11, 2007
A third election within three years has proved incapable of resolving the deep political crisis in Ukraine. Once again, it has become clear that the struggle between rival political cliques, carried o...
Disarray in Putin regime’s cover-up of murder of Anna Politkovskaya
By Andrea Peters, September 13, 2007
On August 27, Russian General Prosecutor Yuri Chaika announced the detention of 10 people for the murder of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya, insisting that the case had been “solved.&rdquo...
Russia: The political significance of the strike at the auto plant in Togliatti
By Vladimir Volkov, August 28, 2007
On August 1, workers at AvtoVAZ, the largest Russian producer of automobiles since Soviet times, carried out a warning strike. The action pointed to growing social and political ferment among workers ...
Putin, Bush talks fail to dispel mounting tensions
By Bill Van Auken, July 3, 2007
In a brief but tense summit at the Bush family compound in Kennebunkport, Maine, Russian President Vladimir Putin blindsided his American counterpart George W. Bush for the second time in less than a ...
Russian mine disaster kills at least 38
By Bill Van Auken, May 25, 2007
A gas explosion in a Siberian coal mine Thursday morning claimed the lives of at least 38 miners, while leaving several others injured.
The bitter legacy of Boris Yeltsin (1931-2007)
By Vladimir Volkov, April 26, 2007
The first president of post-Soviet Russia, Boris Yeltsin, died on April 23 in a Moscow hospital of heart failure at the age of 76. He will go down in history as a world-class political criminal.
Ukrainian political crisis deepens after Yushchenko dissolves parliament
By Vladimir Volkov, April 17, 2007
The political crisis in Ukraine, which had been brewing for several months, reached the boiling point April 2 when President Viktor Yushchenko signed a decree dissolving parliament and setting May 27 ...
Russian trans-Balkan pipeline to skirt Turkey
By Vladimir Volkov, March 29, 2007
On March 15 in Athens, the heads of state of Russia, Greece and Bulgaria signed an agreement of cooperation in the construction and exploitation of an oil pipeline from Burgas, Bulgaria to Alexandroup...
Russia: Deadliest mining disaster in 60 years claims 107 lives
By Cezar Komorovsky, March 21, 2007
In the deadliest mining disaster in Russia since the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, 107 miners have lost their lives in a gas explosion that ripped through a mine 60 kilometers south of the ...
