Last week we announced on this blog the live webcast of congressional hearings held on the Yukos case, featuring testimony by Tim Osborne, Anders Aslund, and others. The archived webcast can still be viewed, and now the transcripts are available f...
Photo from the Digital Journalist As we get closer and closer to the $100 barrel of oil, dutch disease is beginning to dispense havoc upon the Russian economy, driving inflation and causing prices of basic food staples to skyrocket. Today Eugene R...
In a brief departure from my regular blog posts here, I would like to quickly express my gratitude and appreciation for the excellent work of Myron Glaser and his wife, the owners of Glaser Designs of San Francisco, an independent briefcase and lu...
As reported last week on our Daily news blast, a peculiar question came up from a live caller (which was totally not arranged and screened by the government censors) during President Putin’s unique Q&A session alluding to comments made ...
Back when former SEC Commissioner Roel Campos scandalously compared the London Stock Exchange’s junior AIM market to a lively “casino,” his comments were largely dismissed by the monocle-bearing gatekeepers of the British stock m...
Has everyone checked out this site Fora.tv? I’m hooked. Here’s my latest find, which is a video of Lilia Shevstova speaking at the Carnegie Endowment. We highly recommend Shevstova’s new book “Lost in Transition.”
Here’s an interesting piece of news that a reporter friend has pointed me towards: Sergei Storchak has announced the early repayment of an old agricultural loan of $343.25 million to the United States, which was made during the Federation...
The food industry and the government have agreed to freeze prices on a range of basic foodstuffs in Russia. The freeze is expected to ease discontent over recent sharp increases in prices, caused by inflation. The “Conception for Long-Term Socio-E...
Gideon Rachman of the FT asks some good questions in his new article “Russia and China’s challenge for the west” Dmitry Peskov, official spokesman for the Russian president, likes a joke. Visitors to his Kremlin office last week notice...
Everyone would agree that Garry Kasparov receives rather kind treatment from the U.S. press – be it for his previous fame as a chess champion, his sense of humor, or even for his integrity in defense of democratic principles. Those are diffi...
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