What’s the deal with the Kremlin’s opaque ‘secretive anti-crisis task force’, wonders the Moscow Times? An equities trader at Russia’s Renaissance Capital lost the company an estimated $10 million by placing unauthorized bets just as the stock mar...
TODAY: Elections shut parties out; EU divided over resuming talks with Russia in aftermath of Georgia war; Medvedev never mentioned a ‘sphere of influence’, argues one reporter; Russian to sue US government over Aeroflot crash. Roscosmos. Hockey p...
This characteristically bombastic Washington Times editorial argues that Europe’s response, and especially that of Germany, to Russia’s invasion of Georgia has been seen as rewarding of bad behavior – confirming Russia’s cl...
In case you missed it, CBS provides us with a split screen monitor of how Senators Barack Obama and John McCain react to the rather pointed question on Vladimir Putin’s Russia. See if you agree with me that McCain seems to visibly relax when...
The following open letter is making the rounds of the Russian blogosphere these days. As October 13 is Svetlana Bakhmina’s birthday, we thought we’d do our part and publish an exclusive translation of it here on our blog to help bring ...
Women’s colony – hell bedecked in flowers By Grigory Pasko, journalist Если Вы хотите прочитать оригинал данной статьи на русском языке, нажмите сюда. From the editor: Former YUKOS lawyer Svetlana Bakhmina has been transferred to colony № 21, whic...
A few years ago, RA had a series of blog posts arguing that in terms of geopolitical interests, energy, and simple geography, Washington and Tehran could find that they have much more in common than the fiery and hostile diplomacy (or lack thereof...
Today the Lex column at the FT points toward the massive redistribution of assets happening in Russia as a result of the global financial crisis, and the routing being experienced by a number of the country’s most wealthy oligarchs (Oleg Der...
This idea comes from a column by Aleh Tsyvinski in the Moscow Times: Trying to erect an Iron Curtain around Russian funds and businesses will prove counterproductive. Indeed, a large-scale “invasion” of Russian business would be a posi...
Competition authorities in the European Union face a very tough challenge in regulating foreign investment in energy infrastructure. For political reasons, it’s clear that they desire a level of “reciprocity” in the home market o...
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