I am beginning to believe that the world is finally starting to pay attention to the horribly cruel treatment of Yukos political prisoners in Russia, but it wasn’t until the prosecutors have nearly murdered a man that we all wake up. Back on...
Below is an exclusive translation of an important article from the German press by British law professor Alan Riley about how Gazprom is putting its money in the wrong places – thus threatening their own ability to fulfill supply contracts t...
Russia has delivered its third fuel shipment to the Bushehr nuclear power plant it is building in southern Iran. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will attend six-nation talks in Berlin aimed at solving the international dispute around Iran&#...
A lawyer for Swiss company Noga announced that the package of stock in the EADS aerospace corporation controlled by Vneshekonombank has been blocked by an enforcement order. Billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov, the co-owner of Norilsk Nickel, has accuse...
TODAY: British Foreign Secretary accuses Russia of “staining” its own reputation. Bulgarian co-operation with Russia. Oleg Mitvol resigns. Two activists quit over row with Kasparov. Medvedev promises: no state grab. After officials were questioned...
The FT wonders whether Vladimir Putin realizes what kinds of Russian institutions in the UK could come under investigation as a result of the British Council spat: “But Mr Putin should beware. The British Council has operated in Russia for m...
In what looks like one of his most harsh and strident opinion pieces to date, Garry Kasparov launches a scathing indictment against French President Nicolas Sarkozy for his conduct vis-à-vis Russia during the elections period in tomorrow’s e...
The Rutgers political science professor Alexander Motyl has an interesting but not subtle op/ed in the Kyiv Post today arguing not only that Russia is quickly drifting toward becoming a fascist state, but that there is little anyone can do about i...
The last we heard from journalist Lionel Beehner at HuffPo, he laid out the case for why Russia isn’t nearly as important in world affairs as many make it out to be (provoking widespread and often unfriendly chatter in the blogosphere). Toda...
I have spent years writing and publicly speaking about the economic motives behind the Russian government’s campaign of persecution against Mikhail Khodorkovsky. I argued repeatedly that the unlawful expropriation of Yukos, the market value ...
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