Timothey Noah at Slate takes an interesting look at the NOPEC Bill in U.S. Congress, which although it is unlikely to go anywhere, does raise interesting issues of anti-trust law and sovereign immunity. The American legal system’s bizarre to...
What Shell’s deal with Rosneft says about the oil world’s balance of power By Derek Brower, journalist AS A beaten dog loves his master, so Shell loves Russia. However else does one explain the company’s attitude towards the authorities in Moscow?...
Today the Moscow Times is carrying a very important report on the Kremlin’s efforts to impose a certain historical interpretation in the nation’s school textbooks – including an opening chapter on sovereign democracy (which is an...
This fall, the American icon Campbell Soup Company will be making its first foray into the Russian and Chinese consumer markets, starting off by selling Domashnaya Klassika (available in chicken, beef, and mushroom broth) in Moscow. Like many reta...
The new Gordon Brown administration in the UK is not mincing words with Russia, calling the refusal to cooperate in the Litvinenko case “extremely disappointing,” and saying that they “did not have full confidence that it would m...
For those of you who weren’t scared away from last Sunday’s New York Times by the long feature on the Nashi, you may have also had the opportunity to read the interesting article on Norilsk Nickel by business reporter Andrew Kramer. Th...
Laura Citron at nEUrosis wonders why she hasn’t experienced the high levels of graft and corruption she had so often heard about before going to work in Russia. The reason: most corruption in Russia has been incorporated into the state appar...
The troubling trend of increasing state control over media in Russia has extended into another platform with today’s news that Gazprom Media is interested in purchasing RuTube – the Russian equivalent of YouTube. As though the misinfor...
Finnish-Russian Civic Forum in Helsinki: Looking at Russia By Grigory Pasko, journalist [editor’s note: last week Grigory Pasko and Robert Amsterdam attended the Finnish-Russian Civic Forum and met with and interviewed prominent members of t...
Below is an excerpt from Michael Barone’s opinion column “Two Troublesome Powers.” The Russian political system has come to resemble the political system of Mexico from 1929 to 2000, which was something of an absolute monarchy, w...
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