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Moscow voices – from the Russian Automotive Forum shop floor

Is there light at the end of a long, dark tunnel for Russia? After more than a year of catastrophically…

Is Moscow about to turn down subsidy taps?

It was a politician's remark delivered mid-speech at last week's Russian Automotive Forum (RAF) in Moscow, which struck me as indicative of just…

COMMENT – Iran on sanctions end brink as suppliers prepare

As I write this, the world could be just hours away from witnessing the end to one of its most extraordinary…

COMMENT: President defies economic winter with Lada endorsement

As winter starts to really take hold in Russia – both climatically through the advent of the first real cold…

COMMENT: Suppliers defensive in teeth of VW storm

If not exactly a stampede, there is certainly an orderly queue of suppliers beating a retreat to distance themselves from one…