It’s easy to dismiss what Russia is doing with Venezuela as political theater – an attempt to create artificial leverage to use with Washington in other disputes across the globe. But in terms of business, things look much more s...
RA recently blogged about the comparative constitutional opportunism displayed following the Beslan crisis and today’s financial crisis. Coincidentally, a new article by Ella Kesayeva in Novaya Gazeta digs deeper into the persisting my...
In Newsweek, a Chinese oil official from CNOOC warns than the current low prices are causing numerous production projects to be canceled because of skewed financing pegged to $70 a barrel – naturally meaning another supply shock is on the wa...
Though it’s easy to get caught up in slinging criticism over legal abominations in faraway countries ruled by caricature despots, it is truly all the more shocking when you can observe primary examples of these kinds of abuses in your own ba...
The other day our Russia correspondent Grigory Pasko had a very grim piece about the assault case of Mikhail Beketov, the journalist who was beaten by attackers so severely that he was left in coma and had to have one leg amputated. Beketov&...
I’ve done a fair amount of blogging about my role as a legal adviser to a leading Singaporean dissident, Chee Soon Juan, who is currently doing his best to survive an ongoing faux-legal assault against him by the government of this authorita...
It’s Saturday, so I hope I am allowed a little satire. This video shows us what it would be like for Andy Rooney if he were on China’s version of 60 Minutes – and the best way to fight a parking ticket in court. Reminds me a lot ...
Master propagandist Vladislav Surkov appears to be placing preemptive emphasis on Russia’s middle class in this tumultuous financial crisis – though this sector of society has never once reared its head in the Putin years, Surkov is kn...
This comes from an interview with the opposition politician Boris Nemtsov, who recently published a book in Russia which alleges that Gazprom is used as a money laundering vehicle to line the pockets of numerous officials in the Kremlin. The...
Sometimes in looking back on the truly pivotal moments in contemporary Russian politics, we can see not only the impact of the deep crises the country has suffered, but also the uses and expediency of these national traumas by the powers – a...
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