Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has “radically” cut the number of international organizations that receive tax breaks in exchange for giving grants in Russia, causing both the World Wildlife Fund and the Red Cross to lose their tax advantages. AvtoV...
TODAY: Medvedev interviews dominate the press, covering corruption, relations with the US and UK, and the presidential system; think-tank chaired by Medvedev says that anti-corruption plan is “not new politics”; Duma to intervene on children’s “mo...
I don’t know what U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson was thinking during his visit to Moscow earlier this week, but I bet he wishes his aides had given a better debriefing. Dispensing with some pleasantries, he finally got the chance to g...
Under Putin, the Kremlin has brought back the former Soviet national anthem, muzzled the free press, jailed the agitators, and re-introduced political show trials and the gulag. So why not throw some government money into Soviet-style propaganda f...
I was forwarded this blog post by the FT’s John Gapper from a friend, which I thought raises some interesting points about the wider implications of the TNK-BP shareholder dispute. It finally seems like many are slowing coming around to the ...
Yesterday we linked to a column by Stephen F. Cohen, which appeared as part of a three-part opinion feature on Russia in the IHT. The other two columns were contributed by Russia’s Ambassador to NATO, Dmitry Rogozin, whose political party is...
The CEO of the French national champion Total Christophe de Margerie has always been a very interesting character in the Russian energy market – also one of the only ones boasting a successful deal (so far) with the government on the very co...
As promised on Monday, below is an exclusive translation of a cover story from the leading French daily newspaper Le Monde. The request for Mikhail Khodorkovsky’s early release is a test for President Medvedev Mikhail Khodorkovsky, former CEO of t...
Yesterday Bob blogged about the controversy surrounding Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves’s speech to the World Congress of Finno-Ugric Peoples in Siberia. Today there is more in an editorial from the Moscow Times: While Ilves’ c...
Investors are betting that the oil price could surge to $300 a barrel by the end of the year, and the King of Saudia Arabia has announced that the current price is “cheap”. BP executives working at TNK-BP “have already begun leaving the country” a...
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