Video: The Second Trial of Mikhail Khodorkovsky
Month: February 2009
Putinism is Ill-Equiped to Handle Crisis
The following is an extract from the Boris Nemtsov and Vladimir Milov White Paper, as translated over on La Russophobe: The closed, authoritarian and corrupt mode of government created by Putin has turned out to be impotent when it comes to dealin...
The “Chilling Effect” of Khodorkovsky’s Imprisonment
From VOA: The head of Russia’s For Human Rights organization, Lev Ponomarev, told VOA that Khodorkovsky’s imprisonment had a chilling effect on criticism by businesses of the Kremlin. Ponomarev says Russia’s entire business commu...
Olympics, Russian Style
What better way to symbolize Russia’s global reach than through Rosneft, which has been named a top tier sponsor for the 2014 Olympic Games. “We are very happy to win the right to be a Sochi 2014 partner,” Rosneft president Segre...
Interview with Denis Yurinsky, Khodorkovsky’s Prison Supervisor
In light of the AFP story today, we are re-posting Grigory Pasko’s interview of Mikhail Khodorkovsky’s former cellmate, Denis Yurinsky, from April 27, 2007. Good to see the mainstream media finally getting around to talking with ...
Khodorkovsky Frame Job Exposed
Today AFP is running a story on an interview given by a former Mikhail Khodorkovsky prison work supervisor to Kommersant-Vlast magazine, in which he declares the attempt to frame the former head of Yukos for sexual assault was “complete nons...
Is Tajikistan the New Kyrgyzstan?
The importance of Central Asia in Russian geopolitics has been clear for some time, but perhaps it took the Manas debacle to bring America up to speed. Next in line for Russia’s, ahem, beneficence may be Tajikistan, a resource-rich strategic...
China’s New Deals and Brazil’s Deep Water Oil
We’ve been watching with great interest the series of long term oil deals being signed by the Chinese, and now Steve LeVine has a pretty good analytical piece up explaining how the current underinvestment in production is going to lead to an...
Energy Blast – Feb 24th, 2009
Is Kazakhstan going to suspend its joint venture with Gazprom due to effects of the economic crisis? South Korea has agreed to provide Iraq with $3.55 billion worth of infrastructure in return for stakes in Basra’s oil fields. Ru...
Today in Russian Business – Feb 24th, 2009
The ruble has seen its value take a serious hit in the last months, as it did in the 1998 crash – but the chances for a speedy recovery look ‘murkier this time around’. Is Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin behind the latest...