Below are several interviews from experts at last month’s Reuters Russia Investment Summit. Naturally, many of these business and investment figures featured in these interviews feel quite sanguine about the way things are going in Russia. H...
The good news: the Ukraine and Gazprom have reached an agreement on gas debt, thereby preventing another standoff like last year. The bad news: all of a sudden Gazprom says that they are owed $700 million more than the $1.3 billion debt they claim...
[Editor’s note: while this blog is ostensibly about Russian affairs, we also have a strong interest in global energy politics, and will be making an effort to occasionally branch out to discuss the impact of state-owned energy firms on the m...
Russian President Vladimir Putin takes his seat as Presidents Berdymukhamedov of Turkmenistan and Lukashenko of Belarus talk during a CIS summit over the weekend. (Photo: Reuters) President Vladimir Putin has removed Andrei Kazmin as chief executi...
Activists of Kremlin-backed youth group Nashi rally to mark the 55th birthday of Russia’s President Vladimir Putin in downtown Moscow, Sunday, Oct. 7, 2007. The signs on t-shirts with stylized Putin’s portrait read: ‘Our Choice!&...
Here are some links to what people are saying about Anna Politkovskaya today. Novaya Gazeta: Anya’s phone number (495) 798-10-34 Reuters: Supporters demand justice for slain Kremlin critic Guardian: “Keeping hope alive” by Robert Ménar...
People lay flowers alongside a photograph of journalist Anna Politkovskaya at an apartment building where Politkovskaya was killed to mark the first anniversary of her slaying, Moscow, Sunday, Oct. 7, 2007. (AP Photo) Anna Politkovskaya’s fo...
In the past this blog has featured translations of the work of one of Russia’s most brilliant human rights lawyers, Stanislav Markelov, on the filtration camps of Blagoveshchensk. In Anna’s memory, we are pleased to feature an exclusiv...
A Word about Anna Grigory Pasko, journalist In Italy, they’ve put up a memorial plaque in honor of Anna. In Russia, there are no plaques and I doubt there will be any under today’s power: we all remember with what unconcealed irritation Putin had ...
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