This interesting article on Security Fix, a Washington Post technology blog, finds that of all the cyber crime coming out of Russia, it is actually Russian victims that top the list for hackers (this apparently contradicts the widespread myth that...
Activists from the youth movement Oborona succeeded in hanging a 10-meter long banner reading “Free Khodorkovsky” on a roof of Bohdan Khmelnitsky bridge, which faces the court where the first day of proceedings took place. The tw...
The disintegration of Ukraine continues. This morning, reports have surfaced of a raid on the state energy company, Naftogaz, by the SBU. Described by President Viktor Yushchenko as a criminal investigation into the company at the center of the ga...
Writing in The Moscow Times, Nikolay Petrov of the Carnegie Moscow Center suggests that United Russia wasn’t as successful in this week’s regional elections as commonly believed. “United Russia leaders tout the fact that the part...
The aftermath of Obama’s ‘secret letter‘ to Russia has been pretty engrossing. From allegations of quid pro quo, to open assaults on his foreign policy, the event suggests just how polarizing Russia has become, as a host of issue...
If the price of oil continues to fall, Russia may re-impose capital controls (abandoned in 2006), a move that, one analyst suggested, would see investors reacting ‘hysterically’. The energy deal signed by Russia and Spain yesterd...
Many of Russia’s scrap steel yards are set to close this year as production is declining dramatically along with demand. Billionaire Suleiman Kerimov has reportedly bought 20% of mining company Polyus Gold from Vladimir Potanin for aro...
TODAY: Obama denies ‘quid pro quo’, Russia open to discussion despite initial refusals of exchange, cooperates on Afghanistan route; Medvedev backing bills to support small political parties; Orlando Figes says Stalin book pulled for p...
From Phillip P. Pan in the Washington Post: The government’s decision to put Khodorkovsky on trial a second time on new charges of embezzling nearly 350 million tons of crude oil and laundering more than $20 billion of the proceeds has fed s...
The latest spectacle in the “Khodorkovsky trial” theatrical series: On 3 March of the year 1585, the first-ever theatre in a building purposely built for it opened in Vicenza (Italy). The “Teatro Olimpico” exists to this da...
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