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Year: 2008
Is Russia Normal?
Not according to Anders Aslund. Corruption is becoming such a problem, that public outrage could potentially reach a tipping point. Over the past eight years three major factors have defined the state of affairs in Russia. First, the country’...
Putin and Chávez Share Totalitarian Dreams
The New York Times has an editorial today about Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez and his latest wave of expropriations. One can read such an item and easily substitute “Russia” and “Vladimir Putin” to get a precise and deva...
Time for BP to Rethink its Russia Strategy
Some time ago, BP got into big trouble with the Russian authorities – call them a collateral casualty of the lawlessness kicked off by another well known expropriation. But clearly the corporation has been following a strategy to resolve thi...
Energy Blast – April 24, 2008
Gazprom is to buy majority control of TNK-BP for $20 billion by the end of the year. It was reported that Gazprom had warned its patience was running out in the talks to finalize the purchase of Kovykta from TNK-BP. Serbian lawmakers will delay ra...
Today in Russian Business – April 24, 2008
Former Yukos security chief Alexei Pichugin denied in court that he had ever been ordered to commit murder by Yukos shareholder Leonid Nevzlin, and claimed that Federal Security Service agents gave him psychotropic drugs in 2003. State-run Rostekh...
RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – April 24, 2008
TODAY: Clashes during IOC visit in Sochi over housing. Military parade planned for May 9. Russia firm on support for Georgia’s breakaway regions. The Kremlin and the Russian Orthodox Church. Practice for a May 9 parade of Russian military hardware...
Getting to Know McCain’s Brain on Russia
Republican nominee for the U.S. presidential election, Sen. John McCain, is easily the most outspoken of the bunch on Russia, often making brave and provocative comments about his plans for relations with the Kremlin. But who has this nominee̵...
Video: Putin and Medvedev at the Yeltsin Memorial
The following news footage, which is refreshingly free of commentary, shows Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev attending the memorial service for Boris Yeltsin, who passed away one year ago today. According to news reports, Putin’s speech wa...
Grading Russia on Bosnia
Twelve years after the implementation of the Dayton Peace Accords in Bosnia, Richard Holbrooke goes back to review and criticize the progress toward the goals. On follow up, he awards Russia an “F” for running interference on the diplo...