It’s a peculiar contrast: Americans are furious with the perceived recession in the economy, caused by bad mortgage debt, poor fiscal planning, high energy prices, and profligate government spending on war, among other factors. This week the...
TNK-BP’s chief, Robert Dudley, has been “forced” to leave Russia after being unable to get his visa renewed. BP says the move comes as a result of “sustained harassment”. Viktor Vekselberg said BP had brought too many of its employees on loan to T...
Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin has reportedly compared the country’s inflation problem with nuclear war. Read more on what Hermitage Capital is calling a $230 million tax fraud in the FT and Telegraph. Mikhail Prokhorov’s Onexim Group has launched...
TODAY: Russia may withdraw OSCE funding; National Bolshevik web master jailed; court requests Khodorkovsky evaluation; Medvedev working on new personnel; Russia may retaliate with Cuba bomber base; religious battle with Ukraine. Russia is threaten...
Marshall Goldman, Christopher Stewart, and Robert Amsterdam were featured on an hour-long discussion on Russia for Tom Ashbrook’s show On Point. Listen to the broadcast here. Russia, Riches, and the Law Aired: Thursday, July 24, 2008 10-11AM...
Mikhail Khodorkovsky may be Russia’s most well known political prisoner, but there’s no underestimating the urgent centrality of former Deputy Finance Minister Sergei Storchak to the Kremlin’s bitter clan wars. Storchak was a res...
[Editor’s note: In light of Mikhail Khodorkovsky’s recent parole request, we asked our correspondent (and former political prisoner) Grigory Pasko to share his experience going through the process of applying for conditional early rele...
Some good news out of Russia: no longer will they hold those famously non-transparent bidding processes with energy companies to award oil/gas exploration and production licenses, which usually ended with either Gazprom or Rosneft winning, and som...
In the opening chapter of Steve LeVine’s interesting new book, he recounts a visit to the Russian human rights NGO Memorial in the late 1980s, whose offices and museum exhibits “buzzed with researchers, journalists, visitors, and forei...
He may not be president anymore, and perhaps there’s some uncertainty over what portfolios he covers as prime minister, but nobody doubts that Vladimir Putin can still crash the value of a company with a few swift words. That’s what ha...
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