Month: November 2007

November 20, 2007

An Insider Speaks Out on Storchak and Kudrin

We’ve been carefully following the story of Sergei Storchak’s arrest and the alleged campaign to undermine Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin. We are fortunate to have just received “hot off the press” an exclusive analytical d...
November 20, 2007

The Millionaire Party

Dr. Yevgeny Volk writes the following in his article “Who’s Who in Russia’s Parliamentary Elections“: Under the electoral code, every State Duma aspirant must declare his or her income and holdings. United Russia candidates...
November 20, 2007

Playing Monopoly in Russia

Here’s an interesting one from a WSJ blog: “In 1941, the British Secret Service asked the game’s British licensee John Waddington Ltd. to add secret extras to some sets, which had become standard elements of the aid packages that the R...
November 20, 2007

Honoring Journalist Dmitry Muratov

From the Washington Post, “Reporting Against the Odds“: IT WAS NO surprise when authorities shut another independent newspaper in Vladimir Putin’s Russia this month, but the pretext was particularly illustrative of the cynicism o...
November 20, 2007

RA in Stern: The SPD Blackmailed by Russia

Today Germany’s largest-circulation news magazine Stern has published a by-lined article by Robert Amsterdam analyzing the Kremlin’s capture of the Social Democratic Party (SPD). Full English translation after the cut.
November 20, 2007

RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – Nov. 20, 2007

President Vladimir Putin, center, meeting Russian Orthodox Church top priests in the Moscow Kremlin on Monday, Nov. 19, 2007, with Russian Orthodox Patriarch Alexy II. (AP Photo/Pool) Konstantin Kosachyov, head of the Duma’s international affairs ...
November 19, 2007

Russia Takes Second Place in the Siemens Bribery Scandal

It’s not a very good week for German corporate social responsibility, as the Nigerian government has opened up a probe into an alleged 12 billion euros in bribes handed out by the industrial conglomerate Siemens to officials in Nigeria, Liby...
November 19, 2007

Grigory Pasko: Eye on Sochi, Part I

[Editor’s introduction: Our Russia correspondent, the journalist Grigory Pasko, recently went on assignment to Sochi, the Black Sea resort city that has been slated to host the 2014 Olympic Winter Games. Sochi, which has always been a favori...
November 19, 2007

Aron Reviews “For Prophet and Tsar”

AEI’s Leon Aron has published a long interesting a review of the book “For Prophet and Tsar: Islam and Empire in Russia and Central Asia” in the New Republic this month: Poskrebi russikogo i naydyosh tatarina: scratch a Russian a...