The new Economist has an article reviewing the meaning and legacy of the Yukos affair, emphasizing the enormous damage done to rule of law, how the assets were passed from one set of private hands to another (people too often believe that the publ...
Today Yulia Latynina has an important column running in the Moscow Times, which makes mention of a new item of legislation in the United States that would remove sovereign immunity from countries participating in cartels. Yulia is a national treas...
Today and tomorrow, the final two “auctions” of Yukos productions assets will be held, which will likely deliver the valuable properties at an enormous discount directly or indirectly to state-owned Rosneft. As the key beneficiary of t...
A new survey from the Levada Center shows that many Russians are doubting that the upcoming elections will be free and fair (hat tip Siberian Light). From the Guardian: The survey by Russia’s top polling agency found that 39% of voters expec...
Most everyone I have been speaking to this week was indeed expecting Vladimir Putin to make some comments about Estonia during his Victory Day speech, and, true to form, he did not disappoint. In addition to his harsh warning, he also speaks of &#...
Fools and Roads – Some Facts from Russian Reality By Grigory Pasko, journalist Story #1 Recently, at a meeting with students of the Far Eastern Automobile Road Institute, the first deputy chairman of the government of the RF, Sergey Ivanov, ...
Today Russia celebrates 62nd anniversary of their victory in the Great Patriotic War. Anyone who has spent some time in Moscow around this holiday knows that it is a very big deal, irregardless of the recent diplomatic imbroglios surrounding Sovie...
An interesting Reuters report today on pipeline politics with some good info on the Baku-Tblisi-Ceyhan pipeline, and highlighting Russia’s ongoing co-optation strategy to keep Central Asia’s vast gas supplies beyond the reach of Europe...
Maria Yulikova of the Committee to Protect Journalists has a new article about Russia running on the Index on Censorship website. Yulikova writes of the latest Freedom House report which ranked Russia 164 out of 195 countries in terms of press fre...
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