From a late night editorial posted to the Financial Times titled: It’s high time for a blunt talk with Mr Putin Russia’s President Vladimir Putin chairs a cabinet meeting at Moscow’s Kremlin May 14, 2007. REUTERS/ITAR-TASS/PRESIDENTIAL...
The Streetwise Professor (Dr. Craig Pirrong) has a post today urging the State Dept. to get its act together in regards to the creation of alternative export routes for Central Asia’s gas and oil supplies. He writes: While the Americans and ...
Edward Lucas, blogger and Economist reporter extraordinaire, is currently touring Moldova this week and is posting some diary entries commenting on institutional weaknesses, Soviet legacies, and the problematic breakaway region of Transdniestria. ...
Following Robert Amsterdam’s speech at Harvard yesterday, the Boston Globe published the attached editorial. Stay tuned for a video of the event right here. Being cool with Putin Globe Editorial May 16, 2007 DURING HER visit to Russia Tuesda...
As German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier made a last minute, unscheduled trip to Russia this week to carry out some crisis control ahead of Friday’s EU-Russia Summit in Samara, Moscow’s relations with the West are looking qui...
The Land Where You Sit: Khodorkovsky, Chita, and the Decembrists By Grigory Pasko, journalist The term of confinement for Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev in the investigative isolator of Chita was extended by decision of the Ingodinsky Dis...
Russia and Estonia may be at each other’s throats over the decision to move a war memorial, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t other areas of cooperation – such as helping each other out in the Eurovision pop song contest. ...
Bret Stephens of the Wall Street Journal publishes a compelling defense of Russian lawyer Karinna Moskalenko, whom this blog has long supported. ‘Nobody Is Untouchable’ Karinna Moskalenko is Russia’s most distinguished human-righ...
Robert Amsterdam is interviewed here by the Canadian Press regarding Oleg Deripaska’s new stake in Magna International (a Canadian auto parts manufacturer). Canadian corporations shouldn’t be kissing Putin’s ring: lawyer Canadian...
Miriam Elder at the Moscow Times has a front page article running in tomorrow’s edition about the sham auctions of Yukos assets. RA is also quoted in the story. Tuesday, May 15, 2007. Issue 3656. Page 1. Yukos Auctions All Smoke and Mirrors ...
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