TODAY: Medvedev calls on Russian lawyers. Communist Zyuganov accuses Medvedev of undermining the election. Nashi is targeted by Estonian immigration as it is reported that its activities could be wound up. Journalist who blackmailed Deripaska is a...
Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin, “seen as a key liberal in the government,” has called for changes in Russia’s foreign policy to guarantee a stable and predictable regime for investors. Kudrin also said that Russia will move to a free floatin...
Robert Amsterdam’s speech in Calgary today was covered by the Financial Post: Gazprom just an arm of the Kremlin, Khodorkovsky’s lawyer warns Canadians People should understand that OAO Gazprom, the Russian gas giant that wants to beco...
Seems that “stability” message coming out of Davos has sold fairly well to the American delegates, who have announced that Congress may vote on Russia’s trade relations this year (see story after jump). In other news, Garry Kaspa...
Tonight the Moscow Times is reporting that Oleg Deripaska’s company Basic Element is being slapped with a $4 million claim in back taxes for allegedly using “a complex promissory-note scheme with the aid of fly-by-night companies to un...
What will Moscow feel like once there are no longer occasional busloads of confused teens from the regions dumped on Red Square to march and rally in support of the government? What will it be like to no longer have a sea of red-shirt-emblazoned y...
According to Anne Applebaum, they apparently come from freer markets. Undertaking an admittedly trite question of why only today we are treated to “a parade of notably stunning tennis champions” and the “feminine pulchritude̶...
One day he overwhelmingly supports the Russian president, the next day he hosts big press events to launch an Anna Politkovskaya book. In between he shows up in Louis Vuitton luggage ads with surreptitious and ambiguous messages about the Litvinen...
Robert Amsterdam is interviewed by the Calgary Herald today: Be realistic about Russia: litigator Khodorkovsky’s lawyer warns businesses of risks Gina Teel, Calgary Herald; with files from Canwest News Service Canadian corporate leaders need...
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