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January 28, 2011

Today in Russian Business – Jan 28, 2011

Hermitage Capital founder Bill Browder has rained on Russia’s investment parade by pointedly raising the issue of the death of company lawyer Sergei Magnitsky at a Davos session with Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov.  The latter told...
January 28, 2011

RA’s Daily Russian News Blast – Jan 28, 2011

TODAY: Police draw up North Caucasus suspect list for airport attack; Kremlin’s policy in the region deeply flawed, say commentators. Medvedev takes Putin’s line on Khodorkovsky; justifies protest crackdown; Nemtsov found not guilty of...
January 27, 2011

Grigory Pasko: The Insecurity State

By virtue of my profession as a journalist, I often need to fly in airplanes, including frequent flights from Domodedovo airport. And indeed, I’m writing this article right before I need to head out for yet another flight. I can just imagine...
January 27, 2011

Browder Sends Warning to Davos

Whilst President Medvedev was doing his best to divert the WEF’s attention away from corruption, legal nihilism and security issues at his keynote address in Davos, tireless anti-corruption campaigner and badly-burned investor Hermitage foun...
January 27, 2011

Browder Sends Warning to Davos

Whilst President Medvedev was doing his best to divert the WEF’s attention away from corruption, legal nihilism and security issues at his keynote address in Davos, tireless anti-corruption campaigner and badly-burned investor Hermitage foun...
January 27, 2011

Fridman’s Challenge To The State?

The BP-Rosneft deal has certainly rocked a few boats.  It is reported today that TNK, BP’s partners in Russia, have sought to block the deal with an injunction filed in a London court, on the basis that it contravenes two points of thei...
January 27, 2011

Fridman’s Challenge To The State?

The BP-Rosneft deal has certainly rocked a few boats.  It is reported today that TNK, BP’s partners in Russia, have sought to block the deal with an injunction filed in a London court, on the basis that it contravenes two points of thei...
January 27, 2011

Energy Blast – Jan 27, 2011

NATO envoy Dmitry Rogozin has warned the organization that it must investigate the Stuxnet virus which hit Iranian nuclear facilities last year, as a cyber-assault of this nature could, he claims, lead to a catastrophe of Chernobyl’s proport...
January 27, 2011

Today in Russian Business – Jan 27, 2011

Following Monday’s terrorist attack, President Medvedev has made an abbreviated visit to the Davos summit, where he attempted to woo foreign investors: highlighting a desire to create a common economic area ‘stretching from the Atlanti...
January 27, 2011

Today in Russian Business – Jan 27, 2011

Following Monday’s terrorist attack, President Medvedev has made an abbreviated visit to the Davos summit, where he attempted to woo foreign investors: highlighting a desire to create a common economic area ‘stretching from the Atlanti...