Breaking news from the Financial Times – Robert Amsterdam is quoted in the article: Khodorkovsky defence seeks Chevron subpoena By Catherine Belton in Moscow Defence lawyers for Mikhail Khodorkovsky have filed suit in a US district court to ...
When I think back on my meetings and conversations with Anna Politkovskaya before my expulsion from Russia, I recall always being impressed by her stalwart resolve. Indeed, her fearlessness was well documented – including several interviews during...
From a new comment from analyst Katinka Barysch of the Centre for European Reform: The trouble is that Europeans and Russians mean completely different things when they talk about reciprocity. The EU wants a mutually agreed legal framework to faci...
Sacha Kumaria, a senior adviser to the Center for Energy Studies at Cambridge University, has a very interesting column in the Wall Street Journal today which predicts a dark future for independent oil companies (IOCs) such as Exxon Mobil, Royal D...
From the Wall Street Journal editorial on Russia’s claim that the murder of Anna Politkovskaya was ordered from abroad by an opponent of the government: To be sure, Ms. Politkovskaya’s writing had made her enemies in far-flung places, ...
Tomorrow the FT will be running an article about a confidential working paper making its way around the European Commission which could attach a “reciprocity clause” for foreign investors, meaning that they will not be allowed to purch...
Despite some protests and concerns, yesterday afternoon the shareholders of Canadian auto parts manufacturer Magna voted to approve the “arrangement” between Frank Stronach and Oleg Deripaska – the young Kremlin loyalist and owne...
I noticed we were having a pretty large amount of inbound traffic from Slate.com, where it turns out they are linking to an earlier article. So welcome, Slate readers! Please have a look around and remember to check back with us frequently. Down o...
From a Moscow Times editorial on the recent arrests of suspects allegedly implicated in the murder of journalist Anna Politkovskaya: Prosecutors will have to provide proof at some point to substantiate the claim that the murder was ordered from ab...
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