Here’s an interesting little tidbit: apparently BP’s CEO Tony Hayward held one intense meeting with Russian energy executives over the fate of the TNK-BP joint venture during yesterday’s Champions League match between Gazprom-spo...
How much damage to Berlin and Moscow’s privileged relationship has been caused by Russia’s bullying of German airline Lufthansa? Last week we initially reported on the air cargo scandal, publishing a translation from the German press a...
Russian soldiers dressed in historical uniforms march in Red Square during a military parade in Moscow, November 7, 2007. Moscow marked the anniversary of a historical parade in 1941 when Soviet soldiers marched through Red Square to the front lin...
Surely by now you have noticed the very large advertisement in the upper-left-hand corner of this blog, modestly and graciously asking you for your vote for my blog for the 2007 Weblog Awards for the Best European Blog (Non UK). Nevertheless, I th...
Earlier tonight the Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao concluded his official state visit to Russia, capping off a number of business deals, advances in trade talks, and various big promises over economic and energy integration. The most important agreeme...
Canada’s Only Magazine reports on an amusing imagined encounter between one of Russia’s greatest writers and two marketing managers of mass consumerism. In the battle of Russian art vs. modern Western commercialism, apparently the cust...
Grigory Pasko has brought to my attention to a recent issue of VESTNIK ATOMPROMa, a Russian “magazine about the nuclear industry”, which has been published by an enigmatically named Federal state unitary enterprise «Firm of commercial advertisemen...
I’ve long argued that the legal manipulation carried out during the state’s theft of Yukos and other abuses of courts (see the spy-mania trials) by the Federation has had enormously negative implications for rule of law and development...
Today Anne Applebaum observes that although not even Russians are celebrating the 90th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution this week, “Western weakness for other people’s revolutionary violence, the belief in the glamour and benevo...
Brian Whitmore of RFE/RL has a great new article called “Spinning the Kremlin“, which takes a look at political branding efforts of the Kremlin. The article paints a frightening picture of an increasingly sophisticated and polished sta...
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