He was arrested last Friday, but no one really knew why. Today it’s reported that Deputy Finance Minister Sergei Storchak is suspected of embezzling $43 million in state funds. A statement from the Prosecutor General’s Office (who can ...
Activists of the youth wing of the People’s Democratic Union, an opposition group of ex-Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov, hold portraits of Russia’s President Vladimir Putin during a protest in Moscow November 17, 2007. The activists we...
Today’s news on the brazenly harsh deadline set in the Khodorovsky case speaks for itself – the prosecutors aren’t even pretending to play by the rules any more. Both Khodorkovsky and Lebedev are now both under the gun: they have about 36 days to ...
Sakhalin blogger Tim Newman has the following to say about Exxon Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson, the lion of the energy sector: Amongst all the talk about peak oil, increased energy demand, dwindling hydrocarbon reserves, and dependence on unstable regim...
A remarkably entertaining letter to the editor of the FT recommends that the United States invade Canada before Russia or China gets the idea: “Conquering Canada would be easy – on any day, there are more tyres on cars in Manhattan tha...
I would say I’m shocked by this headline, but it seems almost anything can happen in Russia near an election: “Russian Police Detain Deputy Finance Minister.” It appears that Sergei Storchak, who oversees Russia’s massive s...
Following our earlier post on a Grani.ru political poster of Vladimir Putin congratulating Vladimir Putin as the next president, a frequent Russian reader sent in a number of other posters from the same contest (these have appeared online elsewher...
Eric Reguly of Canada’s Globe and Mail has a great blog post up about Gazprom, arguing that “A deal with Gazprom, in effect, is a deal with the Kremlin. There may be nothing wrong with that. But there is something wrong with allowing o...
From Charles Krauthammer’s article in today’s Washington Post: In Germany, Gerhard Schroeder is long gone, voted out of office and into a cozy retirement as Putin’s concubine at Gazprom.
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