European energy policy remains confused and that is good news for Gazprom By Tom Nicholls At least with the French government you know where you stand. It doesn’t much care for the European Commission’s energy-liberalisation programme, especially ...
A very thoughtful and supportive comment about RA guest blogger, journalist and environmental activist Grigory Pasko from Australian journalist Jill Singer: Today, the Russian journalist Grigory Pasko is on a flight back to his homeland after visi...
Today the academic Robert Horvath has a column running in the Australian newspaper The Age which provides a rebuttal to former prime minister Paul Keating’s recent apologist article advising Australia to embrace Vladimir Putin because of Rus...
President of the United Arab Emirates Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed al-Nahayan (R) presents Russia’s President Vladimir Putin with the country’s highest award in the Mushrif Palace in Abu Dhabi September 10, 2007. (Photo: Reuters) In respon...
There is a very interesting article by Fred Weir over at Christian Science Monitor about Mikhail Gutseriyev and the Russian government’s attack and subsequent seizure via Basic Element of his oil company Russneft. As could be expected, there...
Robert Amsterdam is in Chile this week to debrief politicians and journalists on the Mikhail Khodorkovsky case. Below is a profile article from their leading newspaper, El Mercurio. Translation is forthcoming. Also, we are preparing to launch a Sp...
The New York Times has a rather amusing article today about the Russian version of the American sitcom “Married with Children” – which, along with many other examples of cultural exports, has been a runaway hit among Russians. Do...
The following column by Robert Amsterdam was published in today’s Charlotte Observer, among other McClatchy publications. From the Charlotte Observer: Investors should know their venture rests on the whims of Putin ROBERT R. AMSTERDAM McClat...
I have to confess that there is a certain admirable elegance to the criminal adventures of the Russian government – not only the strategies through which they drag other foreign corporations and politicians into their sticky webs of corrupti...
Following some brief talks at the APEC Summit in Sydney, Presidents George Bush and Vladimir Putin gave a short press conference, saying they discussed “important issues” and that the conversations have been “constructive” ...
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