An interesting article from the Washington Post illustrates how the Russian state’s grip on the media has tightened considerably since the war. The Kremlin controls much of the Russian media, and Putin occasionally meets with friendly groups...
Lehman Brothers has folded, markets are diving, and a lot of powerful people in Russia are beginning to feel the heat. Tightening access to international credit and mounting stock losses are hurting Russian billionaires as well as state-owned corp...
Italy’s Enel and United Co. Rusal are in talks to build a new power unit for Enel’s OGK-5 generating plant near the Ural Mountains. The head of Enel says he sees no political risks for his business in Russia. Tensions in the oil markets are relaxi...
Russian companies are struggling to refinance a backlog of $45bn in foreign debt, as the debt market shuts to third-tier borrowers and the cost of borrowing increases by over 2%. The crisis is apparently causing business leaders to back complaints...
TODAY: Lavrov in Abkhazia, Nato in Georgia; Moldovan separatists heartened by Moscow’s position on Georgia’s breakaway regions; Aeroflot crash kills all passengers; journalists under scrutiny; refreshing Russia’s contemporary art. Georgia ha...
Investors aren’t burning with desire Grigory Pasko, journalist Если Вы хотите прочитать оригинал данной статьи на русском языке, нажмите сюда. First such a report from the RIA Novosti agency: Prime minister of the RF Vladimir Putin is demanding th...
Adam Wolfe is blogging about a favorite topic of mine today: Russia’s intrepid (and worrying) push into African energy. The ultimate goal for Russia would be a gas pipeline from Nigeria, through Niger, ending at Algeria’s export termin...
This is unbelievable: Moscow government wants to hand pick juries MOSCOW (AP) – Moscow’s city government is pushing for federal legislation to give major Russian cities the authority to hand pick juries for trials, officials and lawyer...
From time to time, we receive occasional contributions from the highly respected Russian human rights lawyer Stanislav Markelov, who heads up Russia’s Rule of Law Institute. His most recent piece focused on the Olympics and the war. Mandator...
Interesting analysis from the Economist: To endow this idea with more political weight, some diplomats think that Georgia might be given the equivalent of the European road maps being followed by Balkan countries, though without (for now) a promis...
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