Peter Foster of Canada’s Financial Post argues that the Kremlin’s continued lawsuits against the Bank of New York is thin cover for legal extortion. From the Financial Post: Wielding lawsuits like blunt objects is in no way strange to ...
We’ll have a more in-depth post on the Sochi victory later this weekend. From the FT: Public-private partnerships are not new in the world of mega sporting events. But in modern Russia they can take on unusual dimensions when tackled by the ...
The New York Review of Books has another excellent article on the plight of Russia’s journalists, taking the persecution of Manana Aslamazyan as a point of departure.: Putin Strikes Again By Jamey Gambrell Russian journalists have suffered c...
Over the past several weeks, our special correspondent from Russia, Grigory Pasko, has posted a series of 12 original articles with photos from his travels along the proposed route for the North European Gas Pipeline (Nord Stream). This controvers...
The Pipeline in a “Communal Apartment” By Grigory Pasko, journalist I set off from Travemünde to Helsinki on a Finnlines ferry boat. This ferry, I happened to notice, is used primarily by Russians who come to Germany to buy used cars, ship them up...
Many people are surprised to hear that the biggest opponent to Russia’s ascension to the World Trade Organization is not the United States, it is not a competing market in Europe, and it most certainly is not the plot of restless exiles. Rus...
From Masha Lipman on PostGlobal: As the two presidents meet at Kennebunkport, Bush is on a sharp decline, having completely failed to achieve what he proclaimed as his foreign policy mission. He has also largely squandered America’s moral authorit...
In the same week that Rosneft symbolically concludes the feeding frenzy on Yukos by acquiring the company’s 22-story Moscow headquarters from the shadowy front company, Prana, we are treated to the utterly surreal news that ratings agencies Fitch ...
Land at 50 Euros a Hectare The environmental aspects of the Nord Stream gas pipeline By Grigory Pasko, journalist Representatives of Nord Stream assure the public that nature-protection measures have been provided for, both at the stage of constru...
Today I was surprised to read the attached analysis of Gazprom’s South Eastern Europe strategy published by ISN – usually a trusted source of high quality intelligence. The researcher simply mentions Gazprom’s increased stakes in...
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