German Chancellor Angela Merkel and President Dmitry Medvedev have apparently agreed that a ‘stable euro‘ is key to assured financial growth. VTB Group chief executive Andrei Kostin has argued that the fragility of existing reser...
TODAY: Coverup regarding mine disaster? Protests in Samara against police; injured journalist to sue; Russia’s ecology record lambasted; trouble looming over Sochi Games; small parties given voice in Duma. Ukraine will not recognize G...
Simon Schuster has an interesting article in TIME about the Surkov-McFaul committee on human rights recently held in Vladimir. But some of the Russian activists who participated came away feeling let down, more by Surkov’s intransigence than...
The AFP is reporting that President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych has stated that his government will not recognize the independence of separatist territories in Georgia, South Ossetia and Abkhazia: “I have never recognized Abkhazia, South Os...
You know what’s really annoying? When you want to arrest some protesters but then the courts get in the way and you actually have to go through the trouble of inventing some charges against them. It’s much easier just to sk...
Dmitri Trenin has a piece in the Moscow Times today taking a look at the motivations behind the recent shift in Russian foreign policy to warm up to Europe and the United States – and of course, it’s the economy, stupid. Pressure is be...
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Thailand has published a statement on their web site which makes reference to a press release from our law firm. In the interest of free and open debate, we are reproducing the statement in full below witho...
According to Ria-Novosti, a Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman has stated that Iran has not ceased its uranium enrichment program. Italian oil firm ENI is planning on major investments in energy-rich Turkmenistan. Kazakhstan’s na...
‘It is not only our laws that matter, but […] how the rights and lawful interests of business people and those who will come to our market are protected’: Medvedev reassures foreign investors. Vladimir Putin has agreed to b...
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