This one comes the editorial page of the Financial Times: After its energy-dependent economy shrank by 7.9 per cent last year – the most among the world’s dozen largest economies – Russia is again wooing investment. While it may ...
I am not sure if James posted this latest Hermitage video up yet, but I will go ahead even though it’s been up for a couple of days now. It’s a very powerful and clearly communicated appeal for answers on the murder of Magnitsky ...
Right now the president of the Russian Federation is probably wrapping up his comments to the American Chamber of Commerce, where he has spent the day at various roundtables meeting the business elite. Hopefully at least some of them suggest...
I can’t say that I am entirely surprised that Russian prosecutors have finally dropped their case against Yukos lawyer Vasily Aleksanyan after the legal expiration of limitations. Nor do I think it is debatable that this was a gesture ...
Jamison Firestone, a corporate lawyer at Firestone Duncan (the law firm of Sergei Magnitsky), has a new article in the Mercury News of Silicon Valley about the risks of investing in lawless Russia. Firestone has been interviewed on this blog...
Conflicting news on the Russia-Belarus gas spat: despite initial reports that the gas war had ended, with Belarus having paid its debt, and supplies resuming, Reuters reports that Alexei Miller has told Vladimir Putin that new talks need to be hel...
Why Medvedev’s trip to Silicon Valley may yield little in the way of concrete results, from Reuters. Ria-Novosti has a round-up of the trip. Russia already has several science parks, which have not flourished – why sh...
TODAY: Torture in prison system will be ignored by government say human rights activists; Magnitsky supporters turn up heat on Interior Ministry with new tactics; jailed businessman fears Magnitsky’s fate; Caucasus troubles. Medvedev gives t...
Say what you will about Lilia Shevtsova, but she knows how to get good quote. From Peter Baker in the New York Times. “Western capital helps to support the status quo,” said Lilia Shevtsova, an analyst at the Carnegie Moscow Cent...
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