Month: August 2007

August 29, 2007

Deripaska Now Controls 42% of Magna

Despite some protests and concerns, yesterday afternoon the shareholders of Canadian auto parts manufacturer Magna voted to approve the “arrangement” between Frank Stronach and Oleg Deripaska – the young Kremlin loyalist and owne...
August 29, 2007

Welcome Slate.com Readers

I noticed we were having a pretty large amount of inbound traffic from Slate.com, where it turns out they are linking to an earlier article. So welcome, Slate readers! Please have a look around and remember to check back with us frequently. Down o...
August 29, 2007

Politkovskaya Investigation Must Be Thorough

From a Moscow Times editorial on the recent arrests of suspects allegedly implicated in the murder of journalist Anna Politkovskaya: Prosecutors will have to provide proof at some point to substantiate the claim that the murder was ordered from ab...
August 29, 2007

Today’s Russia News Videos

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August 28, 2007

RA in the National Post

Robert Amsterdam is quoted in the following article from Canada’s National Post: Moscow irked ‘political’ Swiss ruling favours tycoon Refuse To Help Prosecution Peter Goodspeed, National Post Days after Switzerland’s top co...
August 28, 2007

Novaya Gazeta Launches in English

As reported by the Moscow Times today, the Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta has just recently launched an English-language site featuring translations of some of their groundbreaking investigative journalism. Among other great content, yesterday No...
August 28, 2007

Sarko Talks Tough on Russia

(Photo: Reuters) In what many are calling Nicholas Sarkozy’s first serious foreign policy speech, the new French president had some strong words for Russia, accusing them of using their oil and gas assets with “brutality” to achi...
August 28, 2007

Tom Nicholls: Friendship Pipeline Creates More Enemies

Friendship Pipeline Creates More Enemies By Tom Nicholls Russia’s reputation for reliability as a energy supplier to Europe has taken another battering. The country’s second largest oil producer, Lukoil has significantly reduced oil flows to...
August 27, 2007

Teachers Fund to Vote Against Magna’s Russia Deal

Today Reuters is reporting that the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan is planning on voting against Magna’s arrangement with Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska. As we reported on this blog earlier this summer, Magna sent a notice to all s...