This video from the Wall Street Journal accompanies the much-discussed article “As Burgers Boom in Russia, McDonald’s Touts Discipline.” As this blog has reported in the past, there remain tremendous business opportunities in Rus...
Press freedom watchdog Reporters without Borders has published its 2007 Worldwide Press Freedom Index, which ranked Russia at 144, just below Yemen and Afghanistan and above Tunisia and Egypt. Poland and Bulgaria were among the worst performers in...
Hats off in congratulations to the bureaucrats sitting atop Rosneft, which just reported strong quarterly sales results of $10.8 billion – up from $8.6 billion from the same period in 2006, thanks to the company’s “managerial exc...
Back on Sept. 20, a deadly firefight broke out in the mountainous breakaway region of Abkhazia – the separatist “frozen conflict” area where Georgia and Russia play an endless game of tug-of-war. When the smoke cleared, there wer...
In today’s column, Anne Applebaum spends some time in the Skype offices of Tallinn, Estonia to contemplate the difficult dynamic of historical reckoning, sovereignty, and economic growth among Russia’s former satellite states: One Esto...
This week a new study was published by the talented Dr. Ariel Cohen and Viacheslav Evseev about the growing importance of the Russian private sector’s role in sustaining economic ties with the United States (given that political relations ar...
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin review an honor guard, during an official welcoming ceremony for Putin, who arrived to attend the Caspian Sea leaders summit in Tehran, Iran, Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2007. ...
Both John McCain and Hillary Clinton have new essays in the next edition of Foreign Affairs. McCain, who has spoke out in the past on Russia, uses the opportunity to call for Russia’s removal from the G8: A decade and a half ago, the Russian...
During the Petersburg Dialogue at Weisbaden, President Vladimir Putin fielded some criticism on Russia’s new legislation governing non-governmental organizations, which has been characterized by many as a crackdown on independent voices. The...
EU Energy Commissioner Andris Piebalgs struck a more conciliatory tone in regards to Gazprom and competition at a conference today: “Do we treat Gazprom as we treat Microsoft? Yes we do. The difference is that Microsoft has 100 percent of th...
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