A few weeks ago, a much discussed report from a group of Russian human rights activists established that the volume of corruption in the country comprises 50% of GDP, finding that law enforcement and the judicial system are the institutions most a...
Way back when PricewaterhouseCoopers withdrew ten years of audits of the Yukos accounts following several government raids on their offices and an implicit threat to revoke their business license, anybody with half a brain could smell something ro...
The Atlanta Journal Constitution is running a pro and con piece from two defense experts debating the ratification of the replacement of the START nuclear treaty with Russia. The two seem to focus their disagreement on the weakened verificat...
Sberbank says that Russia could supply 200 million metric tons of emission credits, supposedly as part of a program to reduce emissions. Gazprom is to consolidate its various electricity holdings and create a new giant power producer. ...
Farmers are already worrying about next year’s crop due to dry weather conditions, says the FT. President Dmitry Medvedev’s comments that the grain export ban could be lifted this year contradict earlier statements by Vladimir Pu...
TODAY: Election watchdog warns of dirty electioneering; Putin’s Valdai Club soundbites hit the press; Luzhkov backs Khimki road; company deforests St Petersburg lake resort; singer summoned to explain inflammatory lyrics; Afghanistan, Israel...
Writing in the Moscow Times, economist Vladislav Inozemtsev has a bold and simple idea to modernize the Russian economy – and it doesn’t involve a top-down approach to force through an innovation center in the Skolkovo valley. Th...
The Economist has a a translation of a terrific article by former Polish Foreign Minister Adam Rotfeld, which was originally published in Gazeta Wyborcza earlier this summer. Rotfeld gets to the bottom of the many competing and complimentary...
In relation to our ongoing coverage of the rise of the BRIC economies, we’re grateful to present the following contribution on Brazil from Georges D. Landau, a professor of international relations from S. Paulo. One month before the election...
Following Friday’s news that President Dmitry Medvedev had proposed to replace Rosneft leader Sergei Bogdanchikov with Eduard Khudainatov, the papers today are reporting on the background of the company’s new ‘dark horse‘ p...
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