In our ongoing effort to make information about the case of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, we have translated our White Paper into Portuguese. On the sidebar of this blog, there is a section where this document can be downloaded in English, Russian, French...
Russian Prime Minister Viktor Zubkov holds a child during a visit to a children’s home in Penza, some 650 km (405 miles) southeast of Moscow, September 26, 2007. (Photo: Reuters) In a bid to boost his popularity, Prime Minister Viktor Zubkov...
A new film, “A Crude Awakening”, leaves out too many inconvenient truths By Derek Brower, journalist OIL IS a finite resource, so the more of it the world’s energy companies extract, the less will remain. On that, everyone agrees...
Today Transparency International published their 2007 Corruption Perceptions Index, which ranked Russia 143rd out of 180. The full index and media kit can be downloaded here.
Below are a few excerpts from a recommended article in the September/October edition of the American Interest by Peter Ackerman and Michael J. Glennon titled “The Right Side of the Law” which raises many points of debate over the Putin...
Yesterday began the trial of the political commentator Andrei Piontkovsky, whose critical books and articles were deemed by the Kremlin as “extremist,” allegedly aimed at inciting violence against Russians, Jews, and even Americans. In the context...
The energy industry is strongly opposed to proposed increases to oil and gas royalties in Alberta, Canada. Will its voice be heard? The Canadian oil patch has been rattled by a government-appointed commission that says Albertans are not getting th...
Russia’s Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov (L) speaks to workers during the unveiling ceremony of Sukhoi’s Superjet 100 at the aircraft manufacturing plant in the Far Eastern city Komsomolsk-on-Amur September 26, 2007. (Photo: Reuter...
Yuri Schmidt, Mikhail Khodorkovsky’s lead lawyer in Russia, was featured in an extensive profile interview in Spain’s largest circulation newspaper, El Pais, on August 13, 2007. Below is an exclusive English translation of the intervie...
I’m pleased to express my warmest congratulations to my friend and colleague, Grigory Pasko, who was awarded the Erich Maria Remarque Peace Special Prize 2007 on Friday in Osnabrück, Germany, birthplace of the famous anti-war author of ̶...
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