Today our translator in Germany has provided us with another exclusive English translation of an interesting article from the newspaper Die Welt, which argues that autocrats stick up for other autocrats as a means of survival, among other insights...
Breaking news: Lawyers for Platon Lebedev, a former Yukos manager and business partner of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, have announced that the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg has ruled in their favor, finding that Russia had violated his rig...
Stanley A Weiss, founding chairman of Business Executives for National Security, writes about how the United States and Russia can make the most of its less-than-perfect relationship: Going forward, Moscow and Washington should remember that, in m...
From The Independent: Russia jailed Khodorkovsky to silence him, say lawyers By Anne Penketh, Diplomatic Editor Published: 25 October 2007 Lawyers for the jailed oligarch, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, accused Russian authorities yesterday of trying to ke...
Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi, his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov, and Indian counterpart Pranab Mukherjee pose for photographers during their meeting in Harbin, capital of northeast China’s Heilongjiang Province. China, Russia and...
Following yesterday’s surprising news that Russia is instituting price controls on numerous basic food staples throughout the rest of the elections season, we thought it would be interesting to speak with an economist to get a perspective on...
Stephen R. Sestanovich has a new interview up on the Council of Foreign Relations website that is worth a read: It’s been said by a number of experts lately that one of the problems in the relationship is that Americans kept saying they “won” the ...
No complaints – because there’s nobody to complain to? By Grigory Pasko, journalist On 25 October 2003 at 5 o’clock in the morning Moscow time, when an airplane flying from Nizhny Novgorod to Irkutsk stopped for refuelling in Novosibirsk, the head...
My favorite Central Asia blog Registan.net has a review of the book “The Oil and the Glory: The Pursuit of Empire and Fortune on the Caspian Sea” by former New York Times and Wall Street Journal reporter Steve LeVine. Steve is a bright...
Now this is crazy news. Reuters is reporting on a new rumor that a competing bid for the recently hijacked oil company Russneft could be backed either by Roman Abramovich or Lakshmi Mittal – putting into question the acquisition plans by Ole...
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