Following up on some coverage in CSM that Russia was planning to drop Microsoft Windows as the national operating system, Tai Adelaja has an in-depth report in Russia Profile on the software giant’s perplexing investment experience. It...
Somehow I missed this interesting review by Max Boot of C.J. Chivers’ book on the Kalashnikov rifle, the only gun in history to be included on a country’s flag (Mozambique) and even home furnishings. What made the Kalashnikov the winne...
Global oil prices are at a six-month high. In conversation with Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin, the EU Energy Commissioner Gunther Oettinger said he wanted Russia to take part in developing an energy strategy with Europe. Sechin sug...
The headquarters of Alexander Lebedev’s National Reserve Bank in Moscow was raided yesterday by ‘masked police officers […] many of them carrying semi-automatic weapons‘. ‘We don’t see any reason to or...
TODAY: Lebedev raid; Medvedev will return to the Kuril Islands, says Lavrov; ties with Norway on the mend; bomb at Athens’ Russia Embassy? Census, Soviets, NATO meeting today. Sobyanin continues shuffling; Lake Baikal; Medvedev a...
As many readers are well aware, today Mikhail Khodorkovsky delivered his final comments at the last sessions of his second show trial, marking the very last words we will likely hear from him for quite some time. The verdict, a foregone conc...
Just a week ago, the well known media owner Alexander Lebedev was launching new publications in the UK (at a moment when few others are supporting print media), releasing high-minded missives across YouTube denouncing Russian corruption, and lobby...
Against all odds, Côte d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast) has just concluded one of the most successful presidential elections in recent African history, bringing a country which has teetered on the edge of crisis for more than a decade a step closer to...
TNK-BP looks set to acquire BP’s Vietnamese assets, after PetroVietnam waived its option to buy them. Activity in the uranium industry ‘has all the makings of a scramble,‘ says The Independent, ‘with Russia already in...
The CEO of Microsoft has agreed to get involved with the Skolkovo project, signing an agreement with Viktor Vekselberg and sparking rumours that millions of dollars of investment could be involved. In a bid to end the corrupt sale of Microso...
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