Would it be foolish to think that all this William Browder/Hermitage stuff would come to an end with just one murdered lawyer? Not quite. This latest story from Catherine Belton in the Financial Times is at once frightening, morally ou...
Yulia Latynina’s column in the Moscow Times points out that Renaissance was also put through the wringer with the same FSB/Interior Ministry scam that Hermitage was … but chose to stay quiet in order to stay in business. Always a...
Say what you will about the Putin-Medvedev diarchy, but there’s no doubting the success they have had in keeping the media running circles around their own script. In fact, reading this CSM editorial (and many others), I get that famil...
From the Washington Post editorial page: Dmitry Medvedev keeps giving speeches about ending the lawlessness and corruption that have overtaken his country. That would be encouraging — except that Russians who try to act on the president̵...
Turkey’s highest court has reversed the decision to have Atomstroyexport build its first nuclear power plant, due to allegations of unfairly high prices issued by the Russian company, and concerns about energy dependency. Russia will g...
Russia may sell up to $3.5 billion of state assets per year in airports, ports, shipping companies and insurance, under its latest 2010 privatization plan. Details of specific companies and the fourteen stakes offered for sale have been docu...
TODAY: Medvedev meets with his human rights council, but there is nothing to report; Putin promises housing to retired military officers including WW2 veterans; media corruption; Amur tigers dying out; Russia’s misbehaved ‘golden youth...
Vlad Ryzhkov’s latest article over in the Moscow Times is worth a read, as it delves into that familiar and beloved topic of the comparative authoritarian models of Russia and China, and the challenged assumption that democracy is good or ba...
Water – the oil and gas of the not-too-distant future What’s news is this: «The world community is hoping that Russia will soon become a supplier to the countries of Europe not only of energy inputs, but of fresh water as well. About t...
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