Ever since the Russian news magazine The New Times published two investigative pieces (which are exclusively available in English on this blog here and here) on alleged money laundering links between the defunct Diskont Bank and the Austrian Raiff...
Following President Vladimir Putin’s surprisingly aggressive comments to journalists before the G8 Summit, when he threatened to aim missiles at European cities, the Kremlin image team has rushed in for some emergency mop-up work to begin re...
From Ria Novosti: Pipelines in the Caspian region bypassing Russia do not spell confrontation with the country’s energy giant Gazprom, a senior United States official said Wednesday. Speaking at an oil conference in Azerbaijan’s capita...
BP’s $1 billion exploration deal in Libya shows that resource nationalism hasn’t closed the door on the private sector. By Tom Nicholls BP has returned to Libya after an absence of more than three decades, signing up a major, gas-focused explorati...
I was first alerted to this open letter from journalist Yelena Tregubova by some readers Germany, who say that it published in a big spread in Süddeutsche Zeitung. I assume it has been reproduced in numerous languages across Europe – below I...
Not since his acidic invective at the Munich security conference last February have the words of President Vladimir Putin been so widely discussed among media, policymakers, and observers. The staggering onlookers still can’t believe their own ear...
Below is a Reuters news clip showing some of President Bush’s comments in regards to the heightened tensions with Russia over the missile row. Although many others have commented on Bush’s friendly “I call him Vladimir” sta...
From a lengthy Garry Kasparov interview on RFE/RL: On Russia and the G8: “Inviting Putin [to the G8] as one of the equals created a very bad atmosphere for us in Russia because any time we are trying to criticize Putin and to look at his rec...
Below are links and excerpts from the raw transcripts both President George Bush and Vladimir Putin’s public comments leading up to tomorrow’s G8 Summit. Maybe the Kremlin’s press secretary should begin adding the “applause...
The Independence of Lawyers – a bone in the throat of the Russian power? A new draft law has been approved which will make legal assistance even more expensive for citizens By Grigory Pasko, journalist The announcement that the authorities are try...
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