The story of the mysterious break-in and robbery at flimmaker Cyril Tuschi’s Berlin studios this past weekend is one of the more remarkable and perplexing items of intrigue out of Russia this year – and that’s not a short list. T...
Boris Nemtsov appeared on the BBC’s HardTalk last night, delivering a scathing rebuttal to presenter Stephen Sackur’s insistence that Nemtsov’s call for sanctions against Russian leaders was improbable. In his defense, ...
Boris Nemtsov appeared on the BBC’s HardTalk last night, delivering a scathing rebuttal to presenter Stephen Sackur’s insistence that Nemtsov’s call for sanctions against Russian leaders was improbable. In his defense, ...
Rosneft and Bashneft have both registered trade operations in Switzerland in the last month, ‘adding to Switzerland’s rising role in physical oil trading at the expense of London, which has seen the departure of several teams,‘ s...
Boris Nemtsov talks to the BBC about capital flight ($40 billion in 2010, he says) and Russia’s need for foreign investments in non-commodities business, and calls for the West to bring sanctions against those who break the Russian constitut...
Many had placed their hopes on him. Literally warming up their expectations, he was silent for so long. And now he has spoken. I immediately recalled the aphorism of Stanislaw Jerzy Lec: «Well, how can one not be an optimist here: my enemies...
Here’s an excerpt from another new Wikileak-ed document from 2008, released over the weekend, which contains some opinions from the American Embassy in London regarding Russia’s military involvement in Georgia. The document,...
Did you know that Garry Kasparov has been banned from appearing on Russian television due to state censorship? Well, that could all be about to change, after Vladimir Posner, the host of the television show Vremena, asked Prime Minister Vlad...
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