Month: February 2010

February 18, 2010

Today in Russian Business – Feb 18, 2010

The Kremlin is hosting a week of meetings focused on ‘innovation‘, with guests from Hollywood, the White House, and ‘internet powerhouses‘ Twitter and eBay, all gathering to discuss social media and civic issues.  Dmit...
February 18, 2010

RA’s Daily Russian News Blast – Feb 18, 2010

TODAY: Russia and Abkhazia to build military base, build economic ties; activist’s children taken away; Stalin information booths to be set up in Moscow; modernization to turn to the church?  Russian wins Olympic gold, thanks priest; Uk...
February 18, 2010

Lawyer Jamison Firestone Forced to Flee Russia

Breaking news from Bloomberg:  Lawyer Jamison Firestone, founding partner of the law firm Firestone Duncan and former employer of Sergei Magnitsky, has been forced to flee Russia for his own safety following the alleged perpetration of anothe...
February 17, 2010

Netanyahu Makes a Deal with Russia?

Here is one way to get positive action out of Russia on Iran, shortly following Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit to Moscow.  From Tony Halpin in the Times: There were suggestions that the Kremlin may have agreed to block the S-300 sale to Ira...
February 17, 2010

Keith Gessen on Khodorkovsky

Writing in the London Review of Books, New York author, editor, and literati-at-large Keith Gessen reviews Richard Sakwa’s book on the Yukos affair and the two trials of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, sketching a rather comprehensive portrait.  ...
February 17, 2010

Getting to Know Vladimir Lisin

Last week when Finans magazine released their Forbesian list of the most wealthy Russian businessmen, readers were quite surprised to see that the #1 slot was taken not by Oleg Deripaska, Mikhail Prokhorov, or Roman Abramovich (whom I think should...
February 17, 2010

Energy Blast – Feb 17, 2010

President Dmitry Medvedev says that Russia believes Iran should cooperate more broadly with the International Atomic Energy Agency, said that it could face sanctions if it did not comply, and reportedly added its name to a joint statement to the I...
February 17, 2010

Today in Russian Business – Feb 17, 2010

The Kremlin is due to release its list of state-owned companies that are due for privatization in ‘a few weeks‘, but sales will not happen until the economy revives, in a bid to receive fair prices for the assets, says presidential aid...
February 17, 2010

RA’s Daily Russian News Blast – Feb 17, 2010

TODAY: Police force struggling with negative reputation; Novosibirsk mayor arrested; Abkhazia to host military base? Russia delays defense system delivery to Iran; no drinking water in Krasnokamsk; activist given German award; sources debate Yanuk...
February 17, 2010

Video: Interview with Nina Khrushcheva, Part 2

Here is the second installment of our interview with Dr. Nina Khrushcheva of the New School in New York, which covers some different ground, including her recent book on Vladimir Nabokov, and her reaction to a recent incident of a disagreement amo...