It’s no mystery that Russian journalists are an endangered species. Beyond the headlines grabbed by the famous cases of Paul Klebnikov and Anna Politkovskaya, there are so many more who are threatened, beaten, harassed, and forced out of wor...
Here’s a quick line from an amusing Wall Street Journal piece about Alfa Bank’s undiminished swagger amid the other fallen oligarchs: Mr. Fridman says Alfa works within the law and dismisses the criticism as “PR” by Alfa...
Der Spiegel has a fascinating article about a piece of historical documentation which has been uncovered, revealing whether it was Walter Ulbricht or Nikita Khrushchev who came up with the idea of building the Berlin Wall. Khrushchev, at any rate,...
Some more scary stuff from Memorial and the Russian government’s transparency to the historical archives, notes Paul Goble’s blog over at the Moscow Times: In an article in the current issue of Moscow’s “New Times,” N...
Every once in a while, it looks as though the Russian anti-trust authorities appear as though they are a normal, independent institution tasked with protecting the integrity of markets from monopolistic practices of business. On the other ha...
A few weeks back we reported on the case of reporter Yelena Maglevannaya (Grigory Pasko also interviewed her), and this week it looks like she is seeking political asylum in Finland. Whenever you have journalists who are fleeing the country ...
We knew that as soon as Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez started talking about introducing a new currency, the “sucre,” for the ALBA, I knew that it wouldn’t be long before we saw Russia get in on this new currency talk. In...
The Wall Street Journal has a good column today on one of our favorite topics – Russia’s energy disaggregation of Europe. Accelerating EU plans to build a single market for energy would have multiple benefits. It would encourage much m...
Gazprom has demanded that Turkmenistan either reduce the price or the volume of its gas, as energy tensions between the two nations escalate. The company is also apparently seriously worried by the pumping of gas into underground storage fac...
The IMF has said Russia ‘urgently’ needs a plan to deal with bad loans and has cut its forecast for growth from 6.5% to 6%. Russian banks may need around $41 billion for recapitalization in 2009. Renaissance Group CEO Steph...
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