Real estate group PIK has bought land in southern Russia with the intention of building a $640-million residential and commercial complex. Phone company Dalsvyaz announced 12-fold profit increases. Roskosmos, the federal space agency, has signed a...
TODAY: Supreme Court chairman moves on corruption; terrorist “black list” to be released; new Khodorkovsky charges could increase his sentence to up to 22 years; Kissinger optimistic on new Russia; human rights document composed by “deeply out of ...
The Financial Times has a new editorial calling upon President Dmitry Medvedev to step in and deal with BP’s disputes with their local partners. We have blogged this story many times. It is legitimate for shareholders to be robust in pursuit...
This one comes from the International Herald Tribune. Professor Cohen is based out of New York University. Wrong on Russia By Stephen F. Cohen Neither of the two major American presidential candidates has seriously addressed, or even seems fully a...
If there existed a silent competition among the heads of state of former Soviet territories to see who can antagonize the Kremlin the most, one would have to concede that the plucky Estonians certainly punch above their weight. Points in this game...
There seems to be no end to the Russian state’s subterfuge in the Anna Politkovskaya murder investigation, as today officials indicated that they believe that the killer has fled to hide in Western Europe (rumors say Belgium). With what has ...
Robert Amsterdam appeared on Bloomberg Television today to discuss the rehashed charges filed against Mikhail Khodorkovsky (click here to watch the video). “There’s nothing fair about this case,” Robert Amsterdam, a lawyer for Kh...
Kommersant explains how there is not much “new” about the rehashed charges filed against Mikhail Khodorkovsky by the Russian prosecutors. The paper is also running an interview with a former Khodorkovsky cell mate, who confesses that h...
BP says it is “disappointed” and finds it “utterly disgraceful” that up to 75 foreign employees of TNK-BP will have to leave Russia after Moscow authorities refused the firm a number of work visas. Kommersant sees TNK-BP’s Russian shareholders “ad...
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin told visiting US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson that Russia, contrary to popular belief, has “various funds”, but does not yet have a sovereign wealth fund. He also said that Russia is “ready to respond” to the chal...
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