TODAY: Medvedev vetoes Zimbabwe sanctions; British press attacks Russia over spying allegations and possible nuclear weapons plans; in-depth look at corruption; Reverend Philip Miles returns to the US; Communist Party still fighting; Georgia vows ...
[Note from the editor: On 11 July, the Chita Oblast Court satisfied a petition of the Investigative Committee alongside the Procuracy (ICP) of the Russian Federation to extend the pre-trial detention of former Yukos head Mikhail Khodorkovsky until...
Running a civil society NGO in Russia is incredibly difficult. Not only do basic operations for the smallest of outfits require more paperwork than a nuclear power plant, they are straddled by costs exceeding the establishment of a corporation and...
Anne Applebaum has a new book review out of Peter Pringle’s “The Murder of Nikolai Vavilov.” Vavilov’s story is a poignant reminder of the enormous potential of achievement of Russian minds, and the state’s consistent...
Some of you may be too young to remember, but back in the late 1970s, the American oilman Nelson Bunker Hunt sought to protect his windfall profits from developing Libyan oil fields against inflation by teaming up with his brother, William Herbert...
Con Coughlin has a column in the Telegraph today, which argues that “before Mr Medvedev gets too carried away riding roughshod over Western interests, whether by obstructing Georgia’s attempts to join Nato and the EU, or assisting Iran...
More on Gazprom’s interest in Libyan gas. One analyst says the company is “cornering all the resources”, and another report says the move will “thwart US efforts to limit Moscow’s use of oil and gas as political weapons.” Gazprom has registe...
The labor union at Norilsk Nickel reportedly wants the company’s board to reappoint billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov as its chief executive. Russia has begun replacing its state-run companies’ bureaucrats with independent directors. Russia̵...
TODAY: More UK-Russia rows; population problems threaten economic security; Kasparov in the FT; new democratic political program; regulations for setting up NGOs “more complicated” than those for companies; Russia-Georgia conflict shows no signs o...
After the news that Russia has offered to purchase every cubic inch available of Libya’s natural gas (this follows upon a similar, less publicized offer to Azerbaijan), is it even possible to identify any difference between Gazprom and the f...
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