Attached here is the full PDF translation of the decision from a Dutch court which declared the Russian government’s liquidation of Yukos assets (YUKOS Finance BV) to be illegal. The court ruled that the bankruptcy receiver Eduard Rebgun, wh...
The democratic transformation of the post-communist group of nations in Eastern Europe and Eurasia has lost a lot of steam in recent years. Since the color revolutions and other successful transitions to representative governments and open societi...
When the New York Times first reported that Mikhail Gorbachev posed for a Louis Vuitton ad, we didn’t really have anything to add to this peculiar development (many other blogs talked about it, including SRB). In this series of Vuitton ads, ...
Jonathan Evans, head of MI5, told Reuters he is tired of throwing away resources on Russia’s spy games when there are other serious security threats from terror groups like al-Qaeda: “Since the end of the Cold War we have seen no decre...
Medvedev “worships Putin like a father figure, or at least like an older brother” says Valery Musin to the MT (AP Photo/Mikhail Metzel) Russia has long maintained a rich texture of public archetypes for its leaders. Mikhail Gorbachev w...
Welcome to RA 2.0 – the new three-column redesign of the blog. Hopefully this new design will make the blog easier to navigate, and help you find what you’re looking for. Please take note of the following new features: 1.) A new Google...
Ultranationalist demonstrators give fascist salutes during their authorized rally in downtown Moscow, on Sunday Nov. 4, 2007. The political and economic turmoil that followed the collapse of the Soviet Union generated hostility toward foreigners, ...
When the «YUKOS affair» first started up in late 2003 and early 2004, people at the oil company told me that they were suddenly unable to place television ads for YUKOS gasoline and motor oil anywhere on Russian TV. Either they were being told all...
The FT talks with former premier Mikhail Kasyanov, who says that the Kremlin inner circle is planning on using the upcoming elections to “usurp power” and return Russia to “de facto one-party rule.” Mikhail Kasyanov, premie...
A Deal with Some Unanswered Questions By Grigory Pasko, journalist Today the 31 units of 10 Russian nuclear power stations account for approximately 16% of the country’s electricity production. Last year, Russian president Vladimir Putin demanded ...
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