As reported on yesterday’s news blast, Mikhail Gorbachev has come out in support of Svetlana Bakhmina, one of the Yukos prisoners who along with Mikhail Khodorkovsky has spent years illegally imprisoned. Gorbachev has called upon the Russian...
Most readers of this blog are used to occasional coverage of freedom of press issues in Russia, and discussions of the impact on civil society and democracy when the state targets journalists with impunity. As I announced yesterday in a blog post,...
Africa needs Russia’s money more than Russians do? Grigory Pasko, journalist Если Вы хотите прочитать оригинал данной статьи на русском языке, нажмите сюда. The basic products of nutrition – bread, meat, butter, sugar, fish and vegetables – have i...
The FT is running a report about Oleg Deripaska’s €48.5m investment in an aluminum smelting plant in Montenegro. Things are going so well over, and apparently the group is applying all the political pressure it can muster in order to secure ...
From Reuters: Putin interrupted a meeting of officials who were discussing the virtues of the Russia’s new satellite global positioning system GLONASS to monitor cattle and wild animals. “Can I use it for my dog?,” he asked, acco...
From an editorial on the breakdown of peace talks between Georgia and Russia in Japan’s Asahi Shimbun. The fact that Georgia triggered the military clash by sending troops to retake South Ossetia doesn’t justify Russia’s decision...
Rosneft, LUKoil, TNK-BP, Gazprom Neft and Surgutneftegaz are all under pressure from the Federal Anti-Monopoly Service to reduce domestic prices. TNK-BP is being hung out to dry by Gazprom, which has reneged on its agreement to buy 63% of the Kovy...
First, Russia’s energy companies successfully lobbied for a bailout, now it is the airline industry. Amid economic woes, Sibir Energy announced it was moving beyond oil into real estate and leisure. Dmitry Medvedev has told his cabinet that ...
Many readers of this blog are already familiar with the Singaporean pro-democracy activist and opposition politician Dr. Chee Soon Juan, who has published a number of essays on this blog. His organization’s tireless struggle to assert basic ...
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