Month: May 2011

May 25, 2011

Today in Russian Business – May 25, 2011

Yandex’s shares, which reached $35 yesterday following its successful IPO, were valued at just $9 last November.  The IPO will give Yandex the chance ‘to make an impact farther from its Russian heartland‘.  Overall...
May 25, 2011

Today in Russian Business – May 25, 2011

Yandex’s shares, which reached $35 yesterday following its successful IPO, were valued at just $9 last November.  The IPO will give Yandex the chance ‘to make an impact farther from its Russian heartland‘.  Overall...
May 25, 2011

RA’s Daily Russian News Blast – May 25, 2011

TODAY: Khodorkovsky appeal rejected, international figures respond; Medvedev on extremism; Putin dismisses bureaucracy and registration for his People’s Front; protesters can look forward to ‘the Tornado’; Lavrov supports Palesti...
May 24, 2011

Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Prisoner of Conscience

It was a long time coming.  Today, following the Moscow City Court’s pre-ordained decision to reject the appeal of Mikhail Khodorkovsky & Platon Lebedev, Amnesty International has come forward to declare the two men as Prisoners of ...
May 24, 2011

More of the Same in the Khodorkovsky Appeal Hearing

Business columnist Joe Nocera of the New York Times has published a very strong article on the elaborately rigged judicial procedure to send Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev back to the gulag of Krasnokamens, Siberia. In China, when the cou...
May 24, 2011

More of the Same in the Khodorkovsky Appeal Hearing

Business columnist Joe Nocera of the New York Times has published a very strong article on the elaborately rigged judicial procedure to send Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev back to the gulag of Krasnokamens, Siberia. In China, when the cou...
May 24, 2011

A Difference of Opinion

A few different approaches to the 2012 Presidential elections in the press today.   1) Shared power will continue.  Russia is moving towards a ‘managed pluralism‘, under which a two-party system will periodically exchange pow...
May 24, 2011

A Difference of Opinion

A few different approaches to the 2012 Presidential elections in the press today.   1) Shared power will continue.  Russia is moving towards a ‘managed pluralism‘, under which a two-party system will periodically exchange pow...
May 24, 2011

Energy Blast – May 24, 2011

It’s been suggested that BP’s failure to complete a tie-up with Rosneft could have a negative impact on its credit, and could ‘raise questions about the sustainability of TNK-BP‘.  Igor Sechin says that Rosneft ‘...
May 24, 2011

Energy Blast – May 24, 2011

It’s been suggested that BP’s failure to complete a tie-up with Rosneft could have a negative impact on its credit, and could ‘raise questions about the sustainability of TNK-BP‘.  Igor Sechin says that Rosneft ‘...