Month: May 2011

May 24, 2011

Today in Russian Business – May 24, 2011

Search engine Yandex has completed its IPO on the Nasdaq, raising $1.3 billion – 19% more than expected, making it the largest internet float since Google’s $1.67 billion IPO in 2004. The float values Yandex at $8 billion.  T...
May 24, 2011

Today in Russian Business – May 24, 2011

Search engine Yandex has completed its IPO on the Nasdaq, raising $1.3 billion – 19% more than expected, making it the largest internet float since Google’s $1.67 billion IPO in 2004. The float values Yandex at $8 billion.  T...
May 24, 2011

RA’s Daily Russian News Blast – May 24, 2011

TODAY: Opposition figures seek party registration; Putin appeals to middle-classes; suspected poachers cleared; Lavrov meets Libyan opposition; Russia slams Georgia for violating right to assembly; Khimki actions; Khodorkovsy appeals; Lenin’...
May 24, 2011

RA’s Daily Russian News Blast – May 24, 2011

TODAY: Opposition figures seek party registration; Putin appeals to middle-classes; suspected poachers cleared; Lavrov meets Libyan opposition; Russia slams Georgia for violating right to assembly; Khimki actions; Khodorkovsy appeals; Lenin’...
May 23, 2011

Beware of Scorpion Fish! (And the F.S.B.)

‘I got to tell you, I’m more in love with the guy than ever,‘ gushes Gayne C. Young to the New York Times.  Young is the Outdoor Life reporter whose 4,500-word wildlife spread on hunting, fishing and ‘the coolest man i...
May 23, 2011

Removing Reformist Labels

Lilia Shevtsova writes on Dmitry Medvedev in the Washington Post today in a bid to dispel some of the assumptions that are commonly made about the ostensibly reason-led, anti-corruption, reformist President.  Perhaps in pretending that Medved...
May 23, 2011

Removing Reformist Labels

Lilia Shevtsova writes on Dmitry Medvedev in the Washington Post today in a bid to dispel some of the assumptions that are commonly made about the ostensibly reason-led, anti-corruption, reformist President.  Perhaps in pretending that Medved...
May 23, 2011

UK’s Bribery Law Approaches Russia

When the terms ‘business’ and ‘Russia’ are found in the same sentence, the word ‘corruption’ is never far behind it seems, so it is unsurprising that much has been made of how the UK Bribery Act could effect (in...
May 23, 2011

UK’s Bribery Law Approaches Russia

When the terms ‘business’ and ‘Russia’ are found in the same sentence, the word ‘corruption’ is never far behind it seems, so it is unsurprising that much has been made of how the UK Bribery Act could effect (in...
May 23, 2011

Energy Blast – May 23, 2011

Transneft intends to fight a court mandate (won by Alexei Navalny) that would force it to release its board meeting minutes. Navalny says that the minutes could reveal Transneft as guilty of embezzlement; Transneft’s chief executive countere...