Year: 2008

July 23, 2008

Today in Russian Business – July 23, 2008

US inflation was reportedly higher than that of Russia in June. Engineering and construction firm Stroitransgaz has won a $418 million contract to build a gas pipeline across the United Arab Emirates. Developers Diversified Realty Corp., an Americ...
July 23, 2008

RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – July 23, 2008

TODAY: Chávez receives warm welcome in Moscow, offers Russia a military base in Venezuela; Sochi residents clash with police; Putin has new United Russia office; Karadzic arrest is “internal matter”, says Russia; McCain weighs in on Czech energy. ...
July 22, 2008

Grigory Pasko on Russia’s Parole Process, Part 1

From the Editor: Mikhail Khodorkovsky’s lawyers have filed a petition with the Ingodinsky District Court of Chita on the conditional early release (that’s Russian for “parole”) of the ex-head of YUKOS. At a recent press conference in Moscow, lawye...
July 22, 2008

Andrei Novikov: On Self Censorship

Editor’s note: Recently the Syktyvkar city court in northern Russia found local resident Savva Terentiev guilty of inflaming social discord with his comment and sentenced him to one year of deprivation of liberty, suspended. We will remind o...
July 22, 2008

Who Owns the Gulag Brand?

A very interesting column by the talented Mark H. Teeter in the Moscow Times ponders whether or not it is appropriate for people to casually extrapolate the term “gulag” for application in vastly different cases, and under whose owners...
July 22, 2008

Fears of a New Cyber War Against Georgia

It happened to Estonia in the midst of the Bronze Soldier fight, it happened to Radio Free Europe, and now it looks like it might be happening to Georgia, as the UN takes on the Abkhazia issue. This first attack, not yet confirmed in origin, looks...
July 22, 2008

Russia’s Public Health Nationalism

After helping sweep Putin’s political party United Russia to another overwhelming victory in the last presidential elections through a series of intimidations and harassment incidents, what’s left to do for the state-funded youth group...
July 22, 2008

The Danger of Ignoring “Insignificant Statelets”

Every once in a while we hear a Kremlin critic argue that the country’s recent pattern of behavior mirrors that of pre-war Germany, characterized by truculence and rejection of the world order, nationalistic authoritarian capitalism, and agg...
July 22, 2008

Energy Blast – July 22, 2008

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has ordered the guarantee of full oil supplies to the Czech Republic in an attempt to show that the previous cut was not made for political reasons. TNK-BP chief Robert Dudley has written to the country’s immigr...
July 22, 2008

Today in Russian Business – July 22, 2008

Is Russia facing an economic slowdown? The owner of miner Mechel will seek to buy 3-5% of the company’s stock from the market to drive its price up ahead of a planned share offering. The latest Russian military technology “can’t match the sp...