Month: November 2009

November 20, 2009

Energy Blast – Nov 20, 2009

Reports have emerged following yesterday’s meeting between ‘comfortable‘ duo Vladimir Putin and his Ukrainian counterpart, Yulia Tymoshenko.  Bloomberg says Putin’s announcement that Ukraine would not be penalized for ...
November 20, 2009

Today in Russian Business – Nov 20, 2009

PricewaterhouseCoopers has released its latest survey of economic crime, and Russia topped the bill, with results ‘well above‘ the global figures.  On that note, Kuban Commercial Bank has had its license withdrawn for scheming to ...
November 20, 2009

RA’s Daily Russian News Blast – Nov 20, 2009

TODAY: Praise for moratorium on death penalty overshadowed by Magnitsky’s death – authorities blocking autopsy?; Medvedev dismissed Kremlin aide for abuse of office; NATO concerns about war games dismissed by Rogozin; Orthodox priest m...
November 19, 2009

Grigory Pasko: Disturbance Factor

They were shooting…Yesterday. In the forest. In Vladimir Oblast. A shot thundered practically right over my head. Luckily for me and for the duck flushed from the mirror-like marsh, the hunter missed. Если Вы хотите прочитать оригинал данной...
November 19, 2009

New York Times Magazine Profiles Mikhail Khodorkovsky

Andrew Meier has penned an epic, wide ranging profile of the second trial of Mikhail Khodorkovsky in The New York Times Magazine, which captures a sense of the courtroom, the personalities, and the historical context of the affair.  For reade...
November 19, 2009

Remembering Sergei Magnitsky

Below is the text of a letter from the law firm Firestone Duncan to clients and staff regarding the death of Sergei Magnitsky (I apologize for the conflicting spellings of his name). November 18, 2009 Dear clients, partners and friends, On the nig...
November 19, 2009

Hitting Rock Bottom

The writer Victor Erofeyev has published an opinion article in the New York Times commenting about what motivations Russians to embrace a familiar if ugly past instead of imagining a reformed future.  His expression of support here echoes wha...
November 19, 2009

Can the WTO Handle Russia?

This editorial published in the Financial Times doubts that the rule structures of the World Trade Organization would be able to contain Russia, which they say is likely to be “a permanent delinquent.” Russia is being asked to change t...
November 19, 2009

The Murder of Russian Rule of Law

From RA’s latest dispatch in the Huffington Post on the death by medical blackmail of Sergei Magnitsky: It has become something of a journalistic cliché to take these shocking Kafkaesque legal sagas in Russia and call them “a litmus te...
November 19, 2009

Energy Blast – Nov 19, 2009

Russia’s EU ambassador says his country aims to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions by 25% through to 2020. Ukraine’s President, Viktor Yushchenko, has written an open letter to Dmitry Medvedev, asking him to change the terms of agreement ...