Depending on where you get your news, you might think that either Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez has further consolidated his petrostate, or perhaps that the opposition succeeded in a breakthrough victory, by winning four of the most impo...
Lt. Gen. Henry Obering is tireless in his efforts to campaign against the idea that the Poland and Czech anti-ballistic missile site proposals pose any threat whatsoever to Russia’s defensive capabilities (he’s pointed out the mismatch...
Vitaly Karayev, mayor of the city Vladikavkaz in North Ossetia, was assassinated today, presumably by sniper fire. His death is the latest in an increasingly unstable wave of violence across the region.
The greatest prize from the new “Shares for Loans” scandal looks to be Norilsk Nickel, as the Wall Street Journal reports on the creeping nationalization of one monster of a metals company. Neither Potanin or Deripaska are willin...
A great new energy blog called The Crude View has been launched by our friends Derek Brower and Tom Nicholls. Below is an excerpt of a recent piece they did about a speech at Chatham House by a fundraiser for the Nabucco pipeline – the...
Insofar as the official reaction, both military officials and the U.S. State Department appear to be handling Russia’s increased activism and showmanship in Latin America with measured dismissals – no big deal, nothing to worry about.&...
‘Russia’s role as a potential hazard to the post-2012 climate-change negotiations is being dramatically underestimated.‘ Ukraine has agreed to pay back its gas debts to Gazprom and rescue plans to secure next year’s s...
The government has published its strategic plan for economic development until 2012, which supposedly ‘puts human capital and the Russian citizen at the forefront‘. In an attempt to implement its ‘aggressive‘ three-ye...
TODAY: A new twist – Politkovskaya case to be open to the media; Samara judge and North Ossetian mayor both shot; Georgian diplomat accuses government of plotting war; will NATO’s refusal to Ukraine look like Russian victory? It is bei...
It’s remarkable how often I come across stories from other lawyers working in faraway foreign jurisdictions, sharing tales of frustration and disbelief over the lack of due process and independence of the courts, and finding myself face-to-f...
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