[This is the second installment of a travel series from journalist and guest blogger Grigory Pasko. Part 1 can be found here.] A Journey from Moscow to St. Petersburg – Part 2 By Grigory Pasko, journalist Klin First a few general observation...
Robert Amsterdam is quoted in the following article from Canada’s National Post: Moscow irked ‘political’ Swiss ruling favours tycoon Refuse To Help Prosecution Peter Goodspeed, National Post Days after Switzerland’s top co...
As reported by the Moscow Times today, the Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta has just recently launched an English-language site featuring translations of some of their groundbreaking investigative journalism. Among other great content, yesterday No...
(Photo: Reuters) In what many are calling Nicholas Sarkozy’s first serious foreign policy speech, the new French president had some strong words for Russia, accusing them of using their oil and gas assets with “brutality” to achi...
Friendship Pipeline Creates More Enemies By Tom Nicholls Russia’s reputation for reliability as a energy supplier to Europe has taken another battering. The country’s second largest oil producer, Lukoil has significantly reduced oil flows to...
Today Reuters is reporting that the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan is planning on voting against Magna’s arrangement with Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska. As we reported on this blog earlier this summer, Magna sent a notice to all s...
Oleg Mitvol, the crusading environmental regulator who brought both Royal Dutch Shell and BP to their knees in Russia, has now got a new target: international investors in the mining sector. Some of you may remember the quiet, creeping interest de...
Something I learned very early on in the Khodorkovsky case is that Russian prosecutors are specialized in arranging political show trials and performing illusions of due process – but when it comes to actual investigations and the procuremen...
We are expecting to post the full English translation of the landmark ruling from the Swiss prosecutors on the Khodorkovsky case very soon. Until then, please see the summary below. (The original French text can be read here – enter case num...
It seems that with the major Economist feature this week detailing the pernicious rise of the FSB-dominated Kremlin, everybody is talking about “spymania” in Russia – what it means to have policy, economy, society and even cultur...
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