Is Magna concerned that Oleg Deripaska and Basic Element could become a trojan horse for the Russian government to become a minority shareholder in the corporation? On August 28th, the Canadian automotive parts manufacturer Magna International Inc...
Photo: AP Celebrity Arctic explorer and Duma member Artur Chilingarov deplaned in Moscow today to a hero’s welcome, bearing a Russian tricolor and a stuffed polar bear. Putin personally congratulated the expedition, and the team made direct ...
This week the Russian procuracy, with its infinite fictional legal authority, successfully won an appeal to increase the sentence given to former Yukos security chief Alexei Pichugin on murder charges from 24 years to life in a hard labor gulag. P...
Georgia’s relationship with its big neighbor to the north took a sharp turn for the worse this week as disputes opened up with Gazprom over transit fees, followed by an accusation today that Russia fired a missile into Georgian territory. In...
Below is a very compelling article from Lilia Shevtsova of the Carnegie Moscow Centre published in the Moscow Times. Anti-Westernism is the New National Idea By Lilia Shevtsova The Russian political elite has long dreamed of finding a national ide...
Another less than encouraging bit of news from Russia’s burgeoning “strategic cooperation” with Venezuela: Russia to Start Work on Venezuela Kalashnikov Plants in October Aug. 6 (Bloomberg) — Russia will start building two ...
Ron Liddle at the Times registers his concern over Russia’s Arctic claim in regards to the country’s dismal environmental record: There’s another little nugget of information to wonder at with Russia: despite, or perhaps because of, po...
Below is an excerpt from the testimony of Zenyo Baran, Senior Fellow and Director of the Center for Eurasian Policy, Hudson Institute, made before United States House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs “Central and Eastern Europe: Ass...
The attached letter to the editor by Robert Amsterdam was published in today’s Financial Times: LSE should encourage the rule of law in Russia By Robert Amsterdam From Mr Robert R. Amsterdam. Sir, The thinly veiled seizure of RussNeft assets...
Earlier this year a Time Magazine reporter coined the phrase “Gazprom always wins” – a mantra which is proving to be no different this week as the Russians dragged Belarus toward the brink of yet another natural gas supply cut of...
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