How is this for conflicting news stories? Financial Times: EU backs Britain’s stance on Russia Deutsche Welle: EU Wary of Being Dragged Into Britain-Russia Diplomatic Row The worst part is that even Brussels couldn’t tell you which story is ...
An excellent editorial in today’s Washington Post: Throwing the Books at Them Another remarkable coincidence in Vladimir Putin’s Russia MIKHAIL Khodorkovsky, once Russia’s richest man, is now one of Russia’s best-known poli...
The Former Secretary-General of the Council of Europe writes a letter to the Financial Times arguing that in fact Russia is legally able to extradite Andrei Lugovoi. Article opens door to extradition of Lugovoi From Prof Daniel Tarschys Sir, The c...
Is anyone out there actually concerned that the current diplomatic row between the United Kingdom and Russia will result in anything serious? I’m certainly not. Yet many in the press and in the blogosphere seem to think that we’re witn...
How did Total, which has relatively less experience with arctic drilling, get selected as Gazprom’s first partner on the Shtokman Field? The current speculation is that new French President Nicolas Sarkozy made a secret deal with Vladimir Pu...
Today in the Moscow Times, Boris Nemtsov has a scathing op/ed arguing that Russia’s approval of the president is mostly based on high commodity prices – just luck. Nemtsov, who is a founder of the Union of Right Forces, originally publ...
Svetlana Bakhmina, Karinna Moskalenko, and myself are certainly not the only lawyers to fall victim to the threats and harassment of the Russian procuracy-general and its increasing willingness to persecute lawyers for simply doing their jobs. Tod...
After having blogged a bit about the new history textbook scandal in Russia, I decided to get some of the more interesting articles out there translated. The following is the first of two exclusive translations of stories by Oleg Kashin at Nezavis...
Today David McDuff has a post up about the Finnish-Russian Civic Forum, where our correspondent Grigory Pasko was a featured speaker (Robert Amsterdam was also in attendence). McDuff includes a link to the program of events.
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