Bloomberg reports on the work of whistleblowing lawyer and corporate shareholder Alexey Navalny, who is apparently determined to expose corruption across big businesses in Russia. Russia’s largest food store chain Magnit saw its sales ...
TODAY: Pro-Kremlin youth group approach Boris Nemtsov; negative outlook for demonstrations; eyes turn to Belarus as government threatens to separate opposition family; EU considers sanctions. Viktor Bout’s wife claims to have been pressured ...
In an IHT article, Joerg Forbrig of the German Marshall Fund recommends that the EU take a tough stance against Lukashenko’s dictatorship. The situation of the democrats in Belarus today is a humanitarian disaster. Numerous people remain beh...
Interesting piece from EUobserver which is somewhat skeptical about Manuel Barroso’s upcoming charm visit to the capital of Turkmenistan, as the EU begins its effort to secure future natural gas exports potentially for the Nabucco pipeline.&...
Tom Fenton has an interesting article in Global Post on Russia’s “Murrow moment.” Leonid Parfyonov’s stunning speech to Russian TV executives at an award ceremony in November was ignored by Russian state television, but you...
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has expressed concern that the Gulf States may be too lenient on Iran, insisting that the secretive power’s nuclear capacities ‘remain a serious concern’. Tehran’s Foreig...
As Russia enjoys its ten-day long New Year’s holiday, ‘some economists wonder whether the country can really afford such a long break, especially as ripples from the global financial meltdown are still being felt.’ Analyst ...
TODAY: Disillusion in Siberia; Strasbourg to discuss Khodorkovsky case; new film out on the Yukos trial; Viktor Bout trial to unlock Russian secrets? Lyudmila Alexeyeva asserts the need for protest to be legal; two activists jailed; Medvedev...
Today the Toronto Star is running an extensive profile of Robert Amsterdam – we’re grateful for their interest, and hope you enjoy. By Monday we’ll be back to our regularly scheduled programming. “I don’t think any r...
Just one week into 2011, the situation in Belarus continues to worsen. The severe crackdown following disputed elections in late December has resulted in hundreds of new political prisoners, gagged media, and regular police raids of various organi...
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