Last night I blogged that the Russian government was going back to its 2004-style hard power expropriation with its very un-subtle attack on TNK-BP. I complained that despite this daylight robbery, no one was willing to say anything about it. Perh...
The Kremlin’s investigation into BP is dominating the news today. “Analysts see clear similarities to the way Shell was treated before being made to hand part of its Sakhalin-2 project to state-owned oil and gas group Gazprom,” says one paper. “Th...
There is a “strong chance” that Moscow will become one of the world’s top financial centers in the next 10 to 15 years, which would make it second only to London in Europe. One Russian journalist calls Russia a “safe haven for investors” dur...
TODAY: Anglo-Russian relations to “normalize”? Medvedev coached to look like Putin? Georgia-Russia transport links resume. Nato jets escort Russian patrols. Britain’s Ambassador to Russia will stand down at the end of the summer, and a Russi...
Following their extended interview with Russia’s president-elect Dmitry Medvedev, the Financial Times is running an editorial supportive of his stated ambition to reinstate rule of law as his top priority. They write: “Mr Medvedev face...
The situation for British Petroleum in Russia is not looking any better, as this evening the news media is reporting that the company is recalling 148 employees because of alleged visa problems, or as we hear it from the representatives, it is ...
An interview with prominent Russian psychiatrist Yuri Savenko – Part 1 By Grigory Pasko, journalist [Right: Photo of Larisa Arap, a dissident held against her will in psychiatric confinement by Russian authorities] Plato regarded creativity ...
I wrote up this short blog post over at my Corporate Foreign Policy (CFP) website, and I thought it might be of interest to some readers over here. To learn about what CFP means, read this post or this post. The new blog is a work in progress, but...
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak said he felt like he was seeing double when he met with Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev today: At a meeting at Putin’s official residence on the outskirts of Moscow on Tuesday, 79-year-old Mubarak told Put...
There are many, many great excerpts from the FT’s ballooning coverage of Dmitry Medvedev today. Here is just one… The pledge to overcome “legal nihilism” became a central part of Mr Medvedev’s low-key election campaign. It seems a rest...
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