Month: October 2007

October 15, 2007

No G8 for You

Both John McCain and Hillary Clinton have new essays in the next edition of Foreign Affairs. McCain, who has spoke out in the past on Russia, uses the opportunity to call for Russia’s removal from the G8: A decade and a half ago, the Russian...
October 15, 2007

Putin Sees No Problems with Civil Society Law

During the Petersburg Dialogue at Weisbaden, President Vladimir Putin fielded some criticism on Russia’s new legislation governing non-governmental organizations, which has been characterized by many as a crackdown on independent voices. The...
October 15, 2007

Piebalgs: “Gazprom is not Microsoft”

EU Energy Commissioner Andris Piebalgs struck a more conciliatory tone in regards to Gazprom and competition at a conference today: “Do we treat Gazprom as we treat Microsoft? Yes we do. The difference is that Microsoft has 100 percent of th...
October 15, 2007

Leverage Lost

From the Washington Post’s coverage of Rice’s non-confrontational visit with Putin: After meeting with Rice on Saturday morning at the U.S. ambassador’s residence, Tatyana Lokshina, head of the Demos Center, a Russian human right...
October 15, 2007

Video: Yavlinsky on the Gazprom Tower

FRONTLINE/WORLD, the interesting online video site of the popular PBS documentary series, has posted up a short clip of a Grigory Yavlinsky speech in St. Petersburg about the plans to build the Gazprom Tower, a controversial skyscraper that has co...
October 15, 2007

RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – Oct. 15, 2007

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, right, and Russian President Vladimir Putin review the honour guards at the Kurhaus resort garden in Wiesbaden, Germany, Monday, Oct. 15, 2007. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus) At least four regional figures from the A...
October 13, 2007

Russia Renews Attack on PwC

PwC literally getting iced in Russia (photo from www.pwc.com) Today’s news that Russia has extended its campaign against the accounting group PricewaterhouseCoopers for its work related Yukos is another reminder that pandering with the Russi...
October 12, 2007

Grigory Pasko: A Cry from a Jar of Spiders

A Cry from a Jar of Spiders By Grigory Pasko, journalist Kommersant recently published an article entitled “We must not allow warriors to turn into traders”, written by the head of the Federal Service of the Russian Federation for Control of the C...
October 12, 2007

Viktor Cherkesov on the Spy Wars

Below is an exclusive translation of the important open letter published in Kommersant by a high level security official exposing the bitter infighting amongst the Kremlin’s various factions. Cherkesov, who is believed to be an opponent of I...
October 12, 2007

Unlawful, Dishonorable and Immoral Behavior

Last month we featured an exclusive translation from the German press by investigative journalist Hans-Martin Tillack about Gazprom and the “Gazoviki.” Now we’re posting a translation of the second article by the same journalist....