Month: January 2011

January 31, 2011

Press Release: International Justice for Thai Impunity

Red Shirts Appeal to ICC over Killings of Protesters by Thai Military Compiled evidence alleges crimes against humanity by Royal Thai Army BANGKOK-TOKYO, Jan. 31, 2011 – Today lawyers acting on behalf of the Red Shirt pro-democracy movement ...
January 28, 2011

Nemtsov Returns to Fray

Mixed fortunes this week for Russia’s political opposition.  Eduard Limonov’s Other Russia was refused registration as a political party by the Justice Ministry, denying it the chance to participate in the 2011 parliamentary elect...
January 28, 2011

Extremism Sport

Today’s Moscow Times picks up on the grim irony looming over one venture that Russia was particularly keen to tout at Davos; the $15 billion chain of skiing resorts in the remote climes of the North Caucasus mountains, which whilst being pri...
January 28, 2011

Energy Blast – Jan 28, 2011

The $1 billion Rosneft-Exxon Black Sea deal has apparently been hailed by Russia’s Deputy Prime Minister (and Rosneft chairman) Igor Sechin as proof that the investment climate in Russia has improved; it is a well-known fact, as Dealbook poi...
January 28, 2011

Energy Blast – Jan 28, 2011

The $1 billion Rosneft-Exxon Black Sea deal has apparently been hailed by Russia’s Deputy Prime Minister (and Rosneft chairman) Igor Sechin as proof that the investment climate in Russia has improved; it is a well-known fact, as Dealbook poi...
January 28, 2011

Today in Russian Business – Jan 28, 2011

Hermitage Capital founder Bill Browder has rained on Russia’s investment parade by pointedly raising the issue of the death of company lawyer Sergei Magnitsky at a Davos session with Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov.  The latter told...
January 28, 2011

RA’s Daily Russian News Blast – Jan 28, 2011

TODAY: Police draw up North Caucasus suspect list for airport attack; Kremlin’s policy in the region deeply flawed, say commentators. Medvedev takes Putin’s line on Khodorkovsky; justifies protest crackdown; Nemtsov found not guilty of...
January 27, 2011

Grigory Pasko: The Insecurity State

By virtue of my profession as a journalist, I often need to fly in airplanes, including frequent flights from Domodedovo airport. And indeed, I’m writing this article right before I need to head out for yet another flight. I can just imagine...
January 27, 2011

Browder Sends Warning to Davos

Whilst President Medvedev was doing his best to divert the WEF’s attention away from corruption, legal nihilism and security issues at his keynote address in Davos, tireless anti-corruption campaigner and badly-burned investor Hermitage foun...
January 27, 2011

Browder Sends Warning to Davos

Whilst President Medvedev was doing his best to divert the WEF’s attention away from corruption, legal nihilism and security issues at his keynote address in Davos, tireless anti-corruption campaigner and badly-burned investor Hermitage foun...