This one from the International Herald Tribune: Merkel to press Medvedev on human rights By Judy Dempsey BERLIN: The case of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the imprisoned former boss of the Russian energy company Yukos, and other human rights issues will b...
I have been watching with great interest the events unfolding recently in Colombia and Venezuela, where following a raid on a rebel camp of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) a laptop computer was retrieved which confirmed active li...
Apparently Vladimir Putin says that he has never heard of William Browder of Heritage: At the Group of Eight summit in St. Petersburg, Russia, in July 2006, a reporter asked Putin about Browder, a U.S.-born British citizen who runs hedge fund Herm...
VIEW FROM MIDDLE ENGLAND A Rant from Anthony Rose Fires are being stoked under Gordon Brown, Britain’s prime minister. The surprise is that it has taken so long. He inherited a strong economy from the previous (Tory) administration : so strong, in...
I’m pleased to announce that my talented friend and colleague Anthony Rose, a British solicitor with whom I have worked for some 15 years, has agreed to begin contributing occasional guest articles to this blog – the first of which wil...
There’s no shortage of things that the prime minister could say about the crisis at TNK-BP, but one can’t help find these comments quite discouraging for BP’s interests: From the Wall Street Journal: In his first public comments ...
This past Saturday was the third anniversary of the sentencing of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, bringing the topic of his unjust imprisonment back into the news again. A group of 100 people, led by Oborona and Oleg Kozlovsky, held a rally in Moscow demand...
Robert Dudley, TNK-BP’s CEO, has refused to step down despite demands that he do so. During his interview with Le Monde over the weekend, Vladimir Putin said that he warned BP years ago about the risks of setting up the TNK-BP partnership with a g...
First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov has stressed Russia’s commitment to achieving higher standards of corporate governance, both at state-owned companies and private corporations. “If Russia is to become a major financial center,...
TODAY: Vladimir Putin interviewed by French newspaper; Kasparov criticizes western media; smuggling case lawyer attacked; gay rights activists detained; Russia sends more “personnel” into Abkhazia. Vladimir Putin’s weekend interview with French ne...
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