From the AP: Moscow bar refuses to disbar well-known defense lawyer The Moscow bar association has refused to disbar a well-known defense lawyer known for representing jailed billionaire Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Russian opposition figures, an offi...
U.S. lawmakers and members of Russia’s Duma during a meeting at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, June 21, 2007. Pictured from left to right: Tom Lantos, Nancy Pelosi, Konstantin I. Kosachev, Leonid E. Slutskiy, Natalia A. Narochnitskaya,...
Fools and Roads, Part III By Grigory Pasko, journalist Having visited various cities of Russia, I can’t avoid noticing the roads. My most recent trip, to northern Russia to report on the construction of the land portion of the North European Gas P...
I wish I could say that DSG’s prudent estimation of political risk in Russia were indicative of a wider trend, one in which businesses began to recognize the true extent of the threat of state corporatism and began investing elsewhere, there...
Sergei Lavrov gets cozy with ally President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran during an official meeting in Tehran June 20, 2007 (Reuters) Yet again, more hostile words from the Russian leadership aimed at escalating tensions with the United States. Aft...
There’s an interesting analysis running on Stratfor which points out that although it would be economically wise to cut gas supply agreements with China, Gazprom made this call with politics in mind. Apparently, Dmitri Medvedev’s sinki...
Early notice: drop everything, go out, buy, and carefully read the following two important books: Savage Century: Back to Barbarism by Therese Delpech And of course, A Russian Diary: A Journalist’s Final Account of Life, Corruption, and Deat...
Garry Kasparov is visiting my hometown of Toronto this week, and has given a speech at the Empire Club arguing Kurt Goedel‘s “incompleteness theorem” for Russia – arguing that Russia cannot solve some of its problems intern...
Say what you will about Poland’s activist foreign policy, but you’d have to admit that they have become one of the EU’s most active young members. However, the exposed emotion of the Kaczynski brothers’ comments is unnervin...
A prominent human rights lawyer fears that Russia’s Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika will intervene to force her disbarment Tomorrow a disciplinary review board of the Moscow Bar Association will meet to decide whether or not to disbar human r...
To provide the best experiences, we use technologies like cookies to store and/or access device information. Consenting to these technologies will allow us to process data such as browsing behavior or unique IDs on this site. Not consenting or withdrawing consent, may adversely affect certain features and functions.
Functional
Always active
The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network.
Preferences
The technical storage or access is necessary for the legitimate purpose of storing preferences that are not requested by the subscriber or user.
Statistics
The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for statistical purposes.The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for anonymous statistical purposes. Without a subpoena, voluntary compliance on the part of your Internet Service Provider, or additional records from a third party, information stored or retrieved for this purpose alone cannot usually be used to identify you.
Marketing
The technical storage or access is required to create user profiles to send advertising, or to track the user on a website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes.
