Blogger and Economist reporter Edward Lucas has the following op/ed running in the Daily Mail. On his site, Lucas writes, “Do not read further if you want balanced commentary and thoughtful nuance. This piece is written for a mass-circulatio...
Amnesty International‘s Secretary General Irene Khan held a press conference in London today to present the group’s 2007 global report on human rights. As expected, the section on the Russian Federation was particularly critical, and m...
Thanks for this link to blogger David McDuff, here is an interesting excerpt of an interview with Igor Yakovenko of the Russian Journalists’ Union, which recently was evicted from its headquarters. From Radio Free Europe: RFE/RL: Finally, so...
Say what you will about President Vladimir Putin, but no one would dispute his firm grip on power in Russia. However it appears that his grasp of finance is not nearly as tight. Both Gref and Kudrin shuddered to think of this Hugo Chavez-style pro...
Here’s a big surprise. In an interview to be published tomorrow in the German magazine Capital, Gazprom’s Deputy CEO Alexander Medvedev is denying the possible formation of gas cartel. “Our business is based very much on long-ter...
Alejandro Litovsky, a senior advisor at AccountAbility, has an interesting column running on OpenDemocracy that argues the importance of civil society’s role in building accountability mechanisms for Russia’s government and private sec...
Ever since Donald Rumsfeld’s famously successful division of Europe before the Iraq war, other nations seeking to benefit from European incoherence and indecisiveness have enthusiastically begun practicing this Machiavellian doctrine of dipl...
The Telegraph reports today on the UK Energy White Paper, which although it doesn’t mention Russia or Gazprom by name, they are “the elephants in the room.” This has put Gazprom in a powerful position. So influential has Gazprom ...
Political polls are a funny thing in a non-democratic countries – I imagine it must make an impact on the answers people give when there is a profound and widespread certainty that their vote will make absolutely no difference. Nevertheless,...
Veteran travel writer Paul Theroux has just published an extensive travel piece / political polemic about Turkmenistan in the new New Yorker. Theroux, who has never been confused as a cultural relativist, reserves a special disdain and morbid fasc...
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