Interesting piece over at the Times takes a look at the United Russia TV campaign ads, which in many ways sound like a dialogue from a psychologist’s chaise lounge: “Today we are successful in politics, economics, arts, sciences, sports,” sa...
A shop assistant adjusts the volume during a nationwide TV address delivered by Russian President Vladimir Putin in a shop in Moscow on Thursday, Nov. 29, 2007. Putin on Thursday strongly urged Russians to cast ballots for the main pro-Kremlin par...
The Russian government’s theft of Yukos was in many ways a dress rehearsal. An experiment with a new methodology of using regulatory and tax pressure,faking the legal cover, spreading the spoils of the take to enough international partners s...
Gazprom executives are wont to frequently threaten Europe, especially in response to anti-trust and competition issues, saying “hey, if you guys don’t like buying gas under our terms (or letting us own distribution assets), maybe we...
Analysts are saying that we can expect a flurry of major deal making from Russian companies as the Putin era comes to a “close.” Stefan Wagstyl at the FT writes about the acquisition plans of Gazprom, Oleg Deripaska’s Basic Eleme...
Lou Dobbs at CNN takes a break from scaring people over harmless Mexican immigrants to talk about U.S.-Russia missile politics. It sure is getting harder and harder for Putin to claim that it is the Americans who don’t want to work together ...
Steve Levine has written an excellent book about the race to exploit the Caspian’s energy IF THE history of the oil industry’s role as a force for democracy and civilisation around the world is your thing, don’t read this book.* There is lot...
Pedestrians walk past as activist of the United Russia party distributing promotional papers with a portrait of President Vladimir Putin in St. Petersburg, Russia, Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2007. (AP Photo/Sergey Ponomarev) The Union of Right Forces (SPS)...
Yulia Latynina writes in the Moscow Times: The most serious economic consequence of Putin’s presidency is that many of his friends have acquired tremendous wealth over the past seven years. If, for example, oil pumped by Yuganskneftegaz was ...
[Also see Part I, Part II, and Part III of this series] Part IV: Special Operation «Olympiad» By Grigory Pasko, journalist Fools and roads, again An obligatory feature of every Russian city is – fools and roads. There just seems to be no way to av...
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