Below is a letter from the Committee to Protect Journalists written to Vladimir Putin regarding the situation of Larisa Arap, a journalist/writer (her profession is disputed) and member of the United Civil Front who is being held against her will ...
Below is an excerpt of a nice book review of British cultural critic Lesley Chamberlain, whose book Motherland: A Philosophical History of Russia is being released in the United States this summer. In 1922, a year of living dictatorishly, Lenin de...
Who is Steven Lynch? No one seems to know who the new American buyer of Yukos assets is, but this move clearly fits the regular pattern of state expropriation. It’s a familiar story: another totally unknown shady front company gets control o...
Here’s an example of innovative policy to address Russia’s depopulation problem: Moscow – A Russian region of Ulyanovsk has found a novel way to fight the nation’s birth-rate crisis: It has declared Sept. 12 the Day of Conc...
It must be tough to work at the Russian Embassy in Washington DC. Every morning your breakfast would be ruined with the sound of the daily newspaper hitting the doorstep; a heavy ‘thump’ of a publication loaded with critical views on t...
Below is a poignant and important letter to the editor of the Financial Times from Mr. Paul Domjan of the Stockholm Network in response to a recent piece by Pierre Noel praising the benefits of Total’s deal with Gazprom to develop the Shtokm...
Writing in the FT today, Martin Wolf puts forward the argument that the heightened caution on the markets caused by the sub-prime mortgage fiasco may not necessarily be at terrible thing. As any regular reader of this blog knows, the voracious app...
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[Note – yesterday we did a blog post about the case of a Russian blogger who is being criminally charged for something he wrote on LiveJournal – now we are pleased to bring you an exclusive (for now) translation of the original Kommers...
[Over the next number of weeks, I am going to be taking a closer look a phenomenon my colleagues and I are calling “Corporate Foreign Policy” – the comparative strategies of engagement with governments carried out private corporations. Not only wi...
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