Back when the Czech Republic went forward and signed agreements with the United States for the installation of anti-ballistic missile shield sites, the Russians were justifiably furious that their protests, concerns, and counter-proposals were sum...
A Wall Street Journal editorial from Saturday argues that the departure of TNK-BP’s CEO Robert Dudley reflects poorly upon Russia as a reliable business environment. Duh. Although filled with mostly tedious foregone conclusions, there is one...
Robert Amsterdam is quoted in today’s Guardian coverage of TNK-BP: Bob Amsterdam, a lawyer who specialises in Russia, says the dispute is a ‘very regressive step’ for Russia. ‘I don’t know how many conferences on corp...
The legacy of the Kremlin’s systematic dismemberment of the Yukos oil company via selective legalism, regulatory harassment, and farcical judicial proceedings just doesn’t seem to be fading away into that dark void of Russian memory. I...
For several years now I have argued that Gazprom enjoys the support of extremely powerful lobbyists in European capitals – the local national energy champions themselves. In exchange for minority stakes in energy production projects, the Rus...
Yesterday we reported on the return of former Deputy Finance Minister Sergei Storchak, whose unlawful pre-trial imprisonment on fraud charges is a focal point of the Kremlin clan wars between the liberal St. Petersburg economists and the hard-line...
Baltic states such as Latvia have been very busy reading the tea leaves from Dmitry Medvedev’s presentation of the Russian Federation’s new foreign policy concept paper. I came across this interesting translation which illustrates some...
Bureaucrats Behind Bars, or “Dictatorship of the law” – Putin-style Grigory Pasko, journalist On one of my business trips to Baikal last year, I made the acquaintance of the mayor of Listvyanka, Tatiana Kazakova. About Kazakova I had been told by ...
Alexandros Petersen of ISS and CSIS has a short op/ed in the Boston Globe today pondering the “risks and rewards” or Russia’s resurgence. I often feel increasingly isolated when I insist that Russia’s return to the global p...
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