My only excuse in publishing an excerpt from this FT piece was the brief mention of Putin’s message to Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi following the violent attack he suffered. No matter what I think of his politics, there’s nothing...
The political fallout continues on the Hermitage case in Russia and the death in prison of lawyer Sergei Magnitsky. First Medvedev fired 20 prison officials, the complaints and outrage continued, and today he sacked Anatoly Mikhalkin of the ...
Gazprom has rejected all requests from European customers to remove take-or-pay clauses from long-term contracts, which require companies to pay for a set amount of gas each year, whether they need it or not. Black Sea oil exports are being&...
Exillon Energy has raised over $100 million in the first London stock market flotation by a Russian company since the financial crisis. The Kremlin’s e-Government portal is to begin providing 74 priority electronic public services this...
TODAY: Medvedev celebrates Sakharov, activists say their work is more dangerous now; European Security Treaty ‘smacks of a trap’; tiny island recognizes breakaway states in exchange for aid; NATO chief in Moscow to rebuild relations; f...
Chinese President Hu Jintao was in Turkmenistan today to take part in a historic ceremony: he had the honorary privilege of turning on the tap of a new 1,140-mile natural gas pipeline, the first to take gas out of the vast reserves of Centra...
The construction of the facilities of the Sochi olympiad is picking up speed. So fast, indeed, that chips are beginning to fly. Together with forests, naturally. Forest preserves, ancient forests, eternally green… Incidentally, the only thin...
I just read in the Wall Street Journal that Yuri Milner, the CEO of Digital Sky Technologies (DST), is in talks with AOL to buy its instant messaging service (ICQ), which has 12.6 million users in Germany and 8.4 million users in Russia. The...
The lawyer Jamison Firestone, a founding partner of Firestone Duncan and former employer of the Hermitage lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, has an article in the Moscow Times pointing out that the firing of 20 prison officials is just a distraction from th...
An editorial in today’s Guardian argues that although NATO shouldn’t have to put it in writing that Ukraine and Georgia will never be members, it should halt its expansion because Russia doesn’t like it and there are various conf...
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