I have read Ivan Krastev’s curious article in the Washington Post today, and although there were some parts that weren’t quite so persuasive (Russia is not “a declining power”), he does get it right about how Washington fai...
The Financial Times is running a special report today on energy security, taking note that most governments in Europe still haven’t figured out how to tell their voters that alternative energy strategies may be costly now but valuable for th...
Today we are seeing a lot of interesting discussions on yesterday’s court decision which found that Russia is still bound by the Energy Charter Treaty, making them potentially liable in a suit being brought by Yukos shareholders for the expr...
An international tribunal has ruled in favor of Yukos shareholders who are seeking up to $100 billion compensation from the Russian government after the company assets were frozen and subsumed into Rosneft in 2006. The ruling deemed that Rus...
The leader of Russia’s second largest labor union, Boris Kravchenko, is eying a merger with another mass union in an attempt to reinforce the leverage of workers at a time of high unemployment, the Moscow Times reports. KPMG’s bu...
TODAY: Browder on Magnitsky; Luzkhov wins his Nemtsov libel suit; blogging fury prompts cancellation of dacha tender; HIV rates on the up; discrimination follows apace. OSCE to discuss Medvedev security proposals; analysts wonder whether dra...
From the Wall Street Journal: A European arbitration panel Monday ruled that an expropriation claim valued at up to $100 billion by former shareholders of bankrupt oil giant OAO Yukos can proceed against the Russian government, the plaintiffs said...
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