Year: 2008

March 27, 2008

Legal Victory for Yukos Shareholders

From the Financial Times: Dutch give hope to Yukos investors By Neil Buckley in Moscow More than 50,000 shareholders of Yukos may finally be able to receive some compensation for their losses after the last material creditor of the bankrupt Russia...
March 27, 2008

Russia Pulls a “Yukos” on TNK-BP

It’s not surprising that the Russian government has laid siege to TNK-BP, argues Carl Mortished, but rather the timing. After all, one would have thought that Gazprom’s appetite would have been sated for a while after the theft of the ...
March 27, 2008

Energy Blast, March 27, 2008

The Federal Migration Service says its tax evasion probe into BP was not part of any “special actions” against the company. Former Unified Energy System’s power producer OGK-1 will be bought for $7 billion by Electricite de France and a Russian fi...
March 27, 2008

Today in Russian Business

Shareholders of the former Menatep Group (now called GML), including Leonid Nevzlin and Platon Lebedev, have won a “major victory” in their attempts to get a share of bankrupt Yukos’ assets, after a Dutch court ordered a Dutch subsidiary of Yukos ...
March 27, 2008

RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – March 27, 2008

TODAY: Third Yabloko official under investigation. Anglo-Russian relations under scrutiny again after release of new report. President Bush to visit Putin in Russia. President Bush announced that he has accepted an invitation by President Vladimir...
March 26, 2008

Viewing Russia’s Future in Latin America’s Recent Past

BOOK REVIEW: “Fujimori’s Peru: Deception in the Public Sphere,” by Catherine M. Conaghan (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005) Some of the most interesting comparative politics studies I’ve read take a look at the similar experiences in transitio...
March 26, 2008

McCain Invites Russia to Join NATO

…but also says he would kick them out of the G8 while signing up India and Brazil. Excerpts from a foreign policy speech given by Sen. John McCain to the Los Angeles World Affairs Council after the cut.
March 26, 2008

The Lack of Scandals in Russia

In many modern democracies, the public scandal has become the bread and butter of the system – whether it is a New York governor’s peccadilloes, a bribery investigation of one of Germany’s largest companies, or even high society ...
March 26, 2008

Modernizing Russia

Masha Lipman in WaPo: If the team of Putin and Medvedev really means modernization, it is sure to face tough challenges. First and foremost is the question of whether modernization is even possible in a deinstitutionalized system that has eliminat...