The new Gordon Brown administration in the UK is not mincing words with Russia, calling the refusal to cooperate in the Litvinenko case “extremely disappointing,” and saying that they “did not have full confidence that it would m...
For those of you who weren’t scared away from last Sunday’s New York Times by the long feature on the Nashi, you may have also had the opportunity to read the interesting article on Norilsk Nickel by business reporter Andrew Kramer. Th...
Laura Citron at nEUrosis wonders why she hasn’t experienced the high levels of graft and corruption she had so often heard about before going to work in Russia. The reason: most corruption in Russia has been incorporated into the state appar...
The troubling trend of increasing state control over media in Russia has extended into another platform with today’s news that Gazprom Media is interested in purchasing RuTube – the Russian equivalent of YouTube. As though the misinfor...
Finnish-Russian Civic Forum in Helsinki: Looking at Russia By Grigory Pasko, journalist [editor’s note: last week Grigory Pasko and Robert Amsterdam attended the Finnish-Russian Civic Forum and met with and interviewed prominent members of t...
Below is an excerpt from Michael Barone’s opinion column “Two Troublesome Powers.” The Russian political system has come to resemble the political system of Mexico from 1929 to 2000, which was something of an absolute monarchy, w...
Peter Foster of Canada’s Financial Post argues that the Kremlin’s continued lawsuits against the Bank of New York is thin cover for legal extortion. From the Financial Post: Wielding lawsuits like blunt objects is in no way strange to ...
We’ll have a more in-depth post on the Sochi victory later this weekend. From the FT: Public-private partnerships are not new in the world of mega sporting events. But in modern Russia they can take on unusual dimensions when tackled by the ...
The New York Review of Books has another excellent article on the plight of Russia’s journalists, taking the persecution of Manana Aslamazyan as a point of departure.: Putin Strikes Again By Jamey Gambrell Russian journalists have suffered c...
Over the past several weeks, our special correspondent from Russia, Grigory Pasko, has posted a series of 12 original articles with photos from his travels along the proposed route for the North European Gas Pipeline (Nord Stream). This controvers...
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