Grigory Pasko has a new one over at Dialogue of Trust: During the past three years it has become not only fashionable in Russia to keep an online diary – it has also become quite risky. The restrictions on free information in Russia led to a...
Sergei Mironov should have known better than to try exercising his free speech muscle. Mironov, leader of pro-Kremlin party A Just Russia, has infuriated rival pro-Kremlin party, United Russia, by casually suggesting that it would be old-fas...
Boris Kagarlitsky in today’s Moscow Times picks apart the current fad for talking about ‘innovation’ in Russia’s political sphere. Former and current finance ministers Anatoly Chubais and Alexei Kudrin have been bandy...
Solidarity co-leader Garry Kasparov discusses Russia’s European integration, privatization, democracy and oligarchy in an interview published by The Other Russia this week. Regarding the EU, Kasparov thinks that cooperation with Russia...
The Natural Resources and Environment Ministry finally may grant Rosneft the opportunity to build a presence on the Sakhalin shelf, as part of broader aims to give the state a larger role in shaping groups that operate offshore projects. Dip...
Panelists at a Russian business forum this week concentrated on the positive lessons learned as a result of the financial crisis, including new understanding of brand weakness, value for money and consumer mentality. Finance Minister Alexei ...
On Tuesday, Feb. 2, Robert Amsterdam participated in the forum panel “The Rule of Law in Russia” alongside human rights lawyer Karinna Moskalenko and Andrei Illarionov.
Here goes an unusually creative grassroots effort to raise awareness of the second trial of Mikhail Khodorkovsky. From the Moscow Times: Mikhail Khodorkovsky chocolate bars and coarse brown mittens that he could have knitted in prison were d...
Lots of videos out there on YouTube today from the Troika Dialog Russia Investment Forum. Roubini sees growth recovering to around 5% growth for Russia, allowing for cautious optimism. However the economist Edmund Phelps says that Russ...
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