Seems that we have posted quite a lot of material lately about the arrest of mobster Semyon Mogilevich, who until this week was enjoying an open and thriving business life in Moscow, with connections to the shadowy Turkmen-Ukraine gas trader RosUk...
The debut of the Russian government’s new standard history textbooks, complete with chapters softening the the legacy of Joseph Stalin’s great terror to the point of ambiguity, indoctrinating the youth with Vladislav Surkov’s sov...
Calls by Ukraine’s new prime minister for Kyiv to deal directly with Gazprom over gas supplies are timely By Tom Nicholls Ukranian prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko wants to see greater transparency in the gas-trading arrangements between Ukraine an...
Today Wired.com has a story about the efforts of Ulrike Poppe, a former East German dissident, to piece together millions of shredded documents which the Stasi attempted to destroy with the fall of the Berlin Wall: “When the wall fell, the S...
So far the details are quite sketchy, but Steve LeVine is blogging about a possible link between the recently arrested gas mob kingpin Semyon Mogilevich and the assassinated Alexander Litvinenko. He writes: “One can be certain that the FSB i...
From the Lex Column of the Financial Times: Gazprom’s stranglehold Gazprom has long been the bogeyman of European energy. Whenever a rival gas supplier announces a discovery or a rise in output, it fosters hopes that the Russian group’...
The editorial board of the New York Times just wishes that Vladimir Putin would at least pretend that he isn’t manipulating the elections. They writes that Western politicians need to start resisting the natural temptation to defend Putin ou...
A radio segment on NPR’s Morning Edition explores the background and early career of the presidential heir apparent, Dmitri Medvedev. They discuss his taste for high fashion, affinity for Deep Purple and other American rock ‘n roll, an...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Mikhail Khodorkovsky on hunger strike Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the jailed former head of Yukos, has commenced a hunger strike in protest against the treatment of jailed former Yukos general counsel and vice president Vasily Alex...
Mikhail Khodorkovsky has initiated a hunger strike in support of his former Yukos colleague Vasily Alexanyan, who is currently being unlawfully held in pre-trial detention and denied life-saving medical treatment despite three separate orders from...
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