Oleg Mitvol, the crusading environmental regulator who brought both Royal Dutch Shell and BP to their knees in Russia, has now got a new target: international investors in the mining sector. Some of you may remember the quiet, creeping interest de...
Something I learned very early on in the Khodorkovsky case is that Russian prosecutors are specialized in arranging political show trials and performing illusions of due process – but when it comes to actual investigations and the procuremen...
We are expecting to post the full English translation of the landmark ruling from the Swiss prosecutors on the Khodorkovsky case very soon. Until then, please see the summary below. (The original French text can be read here – enter case num...
It seems that with the major Economist feature this week detailing the pernicious rise of the FSB-dominated Kremlin, everybody is talking about “spymania” in Russia – what it means to have policy, economy, society and even cultur...
Thanks to Russia’s new broad and flexible extremism legislation, just about anyone who inconveniences the government can face arrest. Such a wide definition of extremism allows the Kremlin to use this legislation to punish and threaten its c...
From the Wall Street Journal’s featured weekend interview with the President of Georgia, Mikheil Saakashvili: At one point I ask him if security and dealing with Russian threats are a top priority. “We have two limbs of Georgia which a...
From this week’s Economist, “The Making of a Neo-KGB State“: Many officers of the active reserve have been seconded to Russia’s big companies, both private and state-controlled, where they draw a salary while also remaining...
One would think that Germany’s easy acquiescence to Kremlin policy and its cozy energy relations with Russian state-owned enterprises would earn it a special preferential status in Moscow – excluded from the energy supply cut offs that...
A Journey from Moscow to St. Petersburg – Part 1 By Grigory Pasko, journalist Chudishche oblo, ozorno, stozevno i layay. Such was the epigraph of Alexander Radishchev, who in the year 1790 wrote his “Journey from Petersburg to Moscow”. If we...
Today Amnesty International has published “new” photographic evidence that they claim proves that Russia is violating the UN arms embargo on the Sudan, and continuing the flow of weapons to feed the genocide in Darfur. The photos were ...
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