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September 5, 2007

RA’s Russia Daily News Digest

[In our ongoing effort to become your one-stop shop for what’s going on in Russia, we are going to begin a daily posting of a digest linking to all (or at least most of) the top stories across the web.] Russian President Vladimir Putin spent...
September 4, 2007

The Legacy of Gazprom’s Image Problem

RFE/RL journalist Roman Kupchinsky, who also testified before the Helsinki Commission on Russian energy imperialism earlier this summer, has an interesting article today giving a short history of how Gazprom became a “state within a state...
September 4, 2007

Audio: RA Interview with Alan Jones

During his visit to Australia, Robert Amsterdam and Grigory Pasko stopped by for an interview with Australia’s number one news broadcaster, Alan Jones of 2GB (Macquarie National News), to talk about Australia’s trade relations with Rus...
September 4, 2007

SMH: Dining on yellowcake with the devil

[Today, before his speech at the Syndey Summit on Russia, Grigory Pasko published the attached op/ed article in the Sydney Morning Herald] Dining on yellowcake with the devil Grigory Pasko Russian nuclear power stations account for 16 per cent of ...
September 4, 2007

Australia Media Coverage

Today in Australia Robert Amsterdam was featured as the keynote speaker at the Sydney Summit on Russia. Below is the coverage from the Australian daily newspaper The Age: Voters oppose uranium sale to Russia More than half of voters are against th...
September 4, 2007

Khodorkovsky to View Chevron Data

From the Moscow Times: Khodorkovsky to View Chevron Data Bloomberg Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the jailed former Yukos CEO, won a U.S. court ruling for access to Chevron research on Yukos as he prepares to defend himself against new charges in Russia. A...
August 31, 2007

Daily Life for Mikhail Khodorkovsky

A feature article from Agence France-Presse: Hidden from view, jailed Putin foe braces for trial Valerie Leroux Fri, 31 Aug 2007 In this sleepy city thousands of kilometres from Moscow a small band of activists and lawyers tries to keep alive supp...
August 31, 2007

Unhappy with the News, Russia Makes its Own

Remember how the Washington Post recently butted heads with the Russian Federation some weeks ago? Remember all those critical editorials over the past few years? Well it seems that the Kremlin got tired of all the negative press, and decided to s...