Here is Part 3 of the Grigory Pasko interviews – a brief discussion of freedom of press in Russia following the assassination of Anna Politkovskaya, and the future role of the internet. See Bob’s intro to the series here.
The following is an exclusive translation of an important article from the German newspaper Die Welt about the case of Vasily Alexanyan (Aleksanyan, Alexanian). The original version can be read on our German-language blog here. Putin abuses justic...
Below is a short outtake from a recent Robert Amsterdam speech at the Russian, East European and Eurasian Center of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In this short clip, Bob describes all the steps taken by the Russian prosecutors to...
$100,000 says we are running out of oil faster than you think, peak-oil group tells US consultancy The Association for the Study of Peak Oil-USA (Aspo-USA) is so sure that world oil-supply growth will fall short of a recent forecast by a US energy...
The lack of investment reciprocity between Europe and Russia, especially in energy assets, is beginning to raise some concerns among officials – especially considering that the president-to-be recently called upon the business sector to go o...
Russian gas export monopoly Gazprom will sign a deal to buy the entire annual gas output from the Sakhalin-1 field of U.S. oil major Exxon Mobil in April-May. Gazprom has booked the band Deep Purple to fly from the UK to Moscow to perform at a spe...
Renault, the world’s fourth-largest carmaker, will share its technological expertise with Russia’s Avtovaz when it completes its purchase of a 25% stake in the “troubled carmaker”. Norcross, an arm of Russia’s Kapital Insurance Group, ...
TODAY: Conflicting reports on Vasily Aleksanyan’s situation. Russia expresses doubts over Iran’s test launch. US Energy Department is funding Russia’s support of Iran. Possible problems with Russia’s WTO accession. It is being reported that Russia...
In tomorrow’s edition of the Financial Times there is remarkable coverage given to the latest developments in the Khodorkovsky case. After the jump, some of the articles. Comments will be forthcoming from Robert Amsterdam. The lead editorial...
Below is a partial transcript of Mikhail Khodorkovsky’s interview with the Financial Times on Feb. 6 in a Chita court. Transcript of Khodorkovsky interview highlights Partial transcript of the FT’s interview with Mikhail Khodorkovsky, conduc...
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