George Will at the Washington Post writes about how to handle the new challenge (and occasional hysteria) of sovereign wealth funds: “Calmness, combined with vigilance, is sensible. Calmness, because the funds are a small fraction of the wor...
Yesterday the Wall Street Journal featured a column on the Kremlin’s successful efforts to jam and distort free press both within and outside of Russia: Kremlin More Subtly Jams Freedom’s Beams Michael McFaul and Kathryn Stoner-Weiss p...
It seems like the Nabucco pipeline project has seven lives – every time we think it’s “dead” because of a competing Russia-backed project, it finds new life. The latest surge of optimism comes from the German company RWE, w...
Reading today’s news of the continued cruelty against the imprisoned Yukos executive Vasily Alexanyan is like going back to the future – at least in this court, Stalinist times are back in full swing. Russian prosecutors and judges inv...
Michael Weiss provides an interesting history of the British Council in Russia in the Weekly Standard: “One theory popular among Putin’s domestic enemies is that the FSB is quite happy to level charges of espionage and “provocati...
“We are planning no radical steps to decrease taxation on the oil industry,” said a spokesman for the Finance Ministry. Russia may raise taxes on the gas industry but has no plans to cut them for the oil sector despite complaints from oil fi...
TODAY: Putin responsible for the strengthening the Kremlin’s “power vertical”. Medvedev to run “ascetic” campaign. Aleksanyan given “unprecedented attention and care”. Court bailiffs tighten border controls for those in debt. Human Rights Watch ca...
The government has split its $157 billion Stabilization Fund into two subfunds for reserve and growth. Officials are “still at odds over how to invest the windfall, as the fund’s supervisor sits in jail and legal risks remain,” but investmen...
I think that Human Rights Watch gets some points for innovation today. In preparing their 2008 World Report, instead of carrying out the same old tired exercise of denouncing the atrocious human rights abuses perpetrated by this and that misbehavi...
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