Interesting column today from Quentin Peel in the Financial Times: In Russia, politics means business By Quentin Peel All politics is business in Russia today, and all business is acutely political. There is no dividing line between the two. Gazpr...
A file photo taken in 1957 shows the world’s first artificial satellite Sputnik I, launched by the Soviet Union. Russia marked the 50th anniversary of the launch of Sputnik, the tiny satellite whose crackly beeps started the Space Race betwe...
(L-R) Russia’s Tanya Lokshina, head of human rights group DEMOS, Oleg Orlov, head of Memorial Human Rights Center and Sacha Koulaeva, head of FIDH Eastern Europe and Central Asia Desk, address a joint news conference in Brussels October 3, 2...
Below is an excerpt from a blog post on YaleGlobal explaining the trade and security interests of China, Russia, and India in Myanmar which has prevented international action in support of the pro-democracy protests: Russia has also supplied Burma...
Today economic adviser to the Kremlin Arkady Dvorkovich is quoted in the Moscow Times, making some pretty compelling and rational statements on the pernicious rise of state corporatism in Russia, particularly those proposed to control the fishing ...
For those in the Washington DC area, we welcome you to come out for Robert Amsterdam’s speaking engagement on Thursday, October 4th at Georgetown University’s Human Rights Institute. Human Rights and Rule of Law in Russia: A Status Rep...
From Zygmunt Dzieciolowski on openDemocracy: This speculation notwithstanding, it was clear from the beginning that the solution to the Russian presidential puzzle would have to meet some basic conditions. The huge concentration of powers in the K...
Eni CEO Paolo Scaroni (L) and Gazprom Vice-President Alexander Medvedev. Photo: Reuters Back in June, ENI’s CEO Paulo Scaroni told the Wall Street Journal that he was optimistic that the company would retain its stake in Gazprom Neft, which ...
Ukraine will settle $1.3 billion in unpaid gas bills owed to Gazprom by 1 November, the Russian gas monopoly said in a statement today. The announcement follows meetings at Gazprom’s Moscow headquarters between Gazprom’s chief executive, Alexey Mi...
A simple, yet always resonant point from a Newsday editorial: In a recent survey of foreign policy experts, Russia was picked as the ally that least serves U.S. national security interests. That’s partly Washington’s own fault. Since t...
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