Year: 2008

August 18, 2008

Energy Blast – Aug 18, 2008

RusAl is urging City institutions to back it in its attempts to replace and increase Norilsk Nickel’s board. Russian shareholder group AAR is expected to press for a secondary listing of shares in TNK-BP, allowing TNK-BP to raise fresh capital and...
August 18, 2008

Today in Russian Business – Aug 18, 2008

The Kremlin will reportedly consider plans to privatize 239 state-owned companies. Russian billionaire Alexander Lebedev says he wants to buy a small German bank to help support German exports into Russia. Lebedev said Russia’s conflict with Georg...
August 18, 2008

RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – Aug 18, 2008

TODAY: Kremlin slow to withdraw troops, increasing numbers in South Ossetia; Nato ministers torn over Russia; minister threatens Poland with nuclear strike over US missile defense; Germany presses for artwork to be returned. Nato ministers are hav...
August 17, 2008

David Cameron is Very, Very Upset About Georgia

And he wants you to know about it. From his op/ed in the Sunday Times: First, speaking up clearly and bluntly about what has happened. This is not a time for diplomatic opaqueness. It is a time to distinguish unambiguously between right and wrong....
August 17, 2008

Russia’s Artful Invasion

From the International Herald Tribune: So along with the old-school onslaught of infantry, armor and artillery, Russia mounted joint air and naval operations, appeared to launch simultaneous cyberattacks on Georgian government Web sites and had it...
August 16, 2008

Possible Repercussions for Russia

Everyone is aware that Washington is not about to send the Marines into Georgia to assert its regional interests, but what are the realistic diplomatic and economic penalties that could be leveraged against Russia? The Bush Administration will be ...
August 16, 2008

Getting to Know Misha

Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili is getting a lot of interesting press coverage this week – and like his public persona, there are those who hold him in awe, and those who blame him entirely for what’s happened (if you haven̵...
August 15, 2008

International Law and the War

Although the dust is far from settled in Georgia, and indeed I am getting firsthand reports of ongoing Russian troop movements, we will soon have to begin taking a serious look at the international law implications of this military action, and ask...