In a week that has been jam-packed with news and opinion on the meaning of the guilty verdict and harsh sentence handed down to Mikhail Khodorkovsky, I am struck by the extraordinary clarity of these latest events. There have been few other ...
We all remember that once upon a time Bush-the-younger gazed into the Vladimir Putin’s soul and saw a democrat. Joe Biden, on the contrary, saw three letters in Putin’s eyes – KGB. Schroeder, being chancellor of Germany, called P...
In a secret venture with the US, Ukraine apparently dispatched 110 pounds of highly enriched uranium to Russia to be blended down, in return for Washington providing low enriched uranium. Good news for Israel, which has apparently discovered...
Russian and Cuban officials have signed an agreement on inter-parliamentary cooperation to help improve trade and economic ties between the two countries. Read a report here on how development in Sochi could be seen as a microcosm of Russia&...
TODAY: Khodorkovsky receives maximum sentence; decision met with flurry of international criticism, talk of court under pressure. The Kremlin urges calm in Korean peninsula; record drug confiscation; Chapman TV appearance; Strategy 31 protes...
I think I have made my own perspectives on the verdict and sentence handed down to Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev abundantly clear in a variety of interviews. However today’s news of the almost maximum sentence of 14 years (si...
On 21 December, the case of a certain S.Antonov was being examined in the court of the Central district of Minsk. According to the police report, he had participated in an unsanctioned action and had been shouting out anti-state slogans. Если Вы х...
Vladimir Putin is apparently confident that 2011 will begin harmoniously in terms of energy relations with contract-respecting Ukraine and Belarus. The Prime Minister has ordered the Prosecutor General’s Office to investigate Transneft...
Comments made by Vladimir Putin on protectionism, especially relating to the heavily subsidized car industry, have apparently cast some doubt over Russia’s WTO accession, which is widely expected to happen in 2011. Oleg Deripaska is re...
TODAY: Economist Democracy Index sees Russia leaning towards authoritarianism; US acting department spokesman says Khodorkovsky trial will not be detrimental to relations; Putin lauds START as success for Medvedev; highlights cabinet unity. ...
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