Tom Balmforth sorts out some speculations on the Viktor Bout-Igor Sechin nexus on the Moscow News. Whether or not these fellows worked closely together, it’s hard not to observe some professional overlap. Many theories on Bout’s ...
I am loving this wide-ranging, meditative essay by Andrei Loshak posted on OpenSpace.ru as well as openDemocracy on civic movements within the Russian internet vs. the presence of the state. The wildfires were a demonstration that we and the state...
Sergey Matyunin, editor of the indispensable RussianLawOnline.com, has an article in The Moscow Times on the president’s proposed reforms to the Civil Code, which will raise minimum capital requirements for companies by 50 fold, thereby impa...
Global warming is causing the greenhouse gas methane, usually trapped inside icy earth, to be released at an accelerated rate in Siberia, says this report. Poland is beginning a year-long analysis into a possible cross-border cable that woul...
Sergey Matyunin questions the business implications of Russia’s amendments to the Civil Code, suggesting that it could mean ‘the end of relatively low taxation in Russia‘. But businesses are looking set to pay significantly...
TODAY: NATO and Russia pledge mutual lack of threat, will cooperate on European missile shield; leaders urge START ratification; Beketov protests in Moscow; St Petersburg’s first gay rights demonstration ends prematurely following attack; ti...
Blogging on the FT’s beyondbrics, Charles Glover, speaking to Chris Weafer, presents the general view of Russia’s business community on the various calamities of Khodorkovsky, Browder, etc.: 1) they somehow deserved it, and 2) it...
An editorial in the Guardian argues that a failure on behalf of the U.S. Senate to ratify the START treaty would cause significant damage to the president’s ability to be taken seriously on the world stage. However the authors fail to ...
In earlier blog postings on this site, Grigory Pasko had been following the story of Lena Maglevannay, a journalist from Volgograd who was chased into exile by government pressure after publishing investigative pieces on the failings and abuses in...
Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin has hinted that the natural gas extraction tax could be increased. ‘Russia’s list of sustainability challenges, from nuclear waste to governance, is long, so climate change gets lost in the shuffle....
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