The long awaited, historic trial of Yukos shareholders vs. Russia is underway in Strasbourg. We’re all very curious to see how the Kremlin’s high powered legal team will defend the theft of what was once Russia’s largest an...
The full version of this article can be read on the Huffington Post. While the fast friendship and personalism between Sarkozy and Medvedev are important, the motives behind the alliance have been obscured (for example, it is difficult to believe ...
Western powers have sent a revised proposal for new sanctions against Iran to Russia and China, in a bid to dissuade Iran from continuing with the production of nuclear energy – ‘China, which relies on Iran for much of its energy, has ...
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is the new chairman of the Kremlin’s high-tech commission. Putin called for an expansion of the body’s authority, and indicated that future measures could include changing the way the state buys prod...
TODAY: Confusion over Olympic Head’s resignation; Yabloko beard protest leads to arrests; Stalin posters to appear in Moscow, but not Irkutsk; Yukos case to be heard at European Court of Human Rights; Sarkozy’s reasons for warship sale...
The great oligarch soap opera continues as billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov “apologizes” to Vladimir Putin following the Prime Minister’s sharp, personal attack against him last week, in which he scapegoated Prokhorov for under-inve...
Yes, it has come to this … Russia’s banks have become so terrified to loan, that the Central Bank is actually praising the role of pawnshops in saving the country from a full credit freeze with high-interest loans (see AP story below)....
Alexander Arkhangelsky is consistently one of the more thoughtful and original voices on Russia out there, and – here’s the weird part – he actually works for the state-owned news agency RIA Novosti. Certainly there is a ma...
Somewhere in a plush Italian villa, Berlusconi is feeling very jealous. Cue up a Barry White album for this blog post on the Times of London by Charles Bremner. What a difference three years make. Campaigning for election in early 2007 Nicol...
Mikhail Khodorkovsky published an opinion article in Nezavisimaya Gazeta today. Below is an excerpt from the English translation, the full version of which can be found here. Every year, the judicial-and-police conveyor belt devours the huma...
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