A pleasant surprise for Yevroset founder, Yevgeny Chichvarkin, as a jury has acquitted nine former company employees on kidnapping charges, which Chichvarkin’s lawyer has suggested is a reason to drop related charges against the exiled commu...
TODAY: Bout pleads not guilty as extradition case darkens US-Russia relations; START faces multiple stumbling blocks, White House continues to push; Clinton solicits Republican support; NATO may trade arms with Russia. Kashin speaks to inves...
CNN has a short report on the extradition of Viktor Bout, including an interview with the ubiquitous Douglas Farah. If there’s anything you can say about spending a few years in a Bangkok prison, is that it’s great for weight loss.
I saw this interesting article in the Financial Times earlier this week, and did not want to let it go by unmentioned. The journalist reports from some excerpts of a new Standard & Poor’s report on trade relations and economic growth be...
Kurt Volker, a former US Ambassador to NATO, has a piece in Christian Science Monitor recommending that Congress wait until later in order to ratify the replacement START treaty with Russia. Volker picks apart the arguments for immediate rat...
Russia has made it into the top ten of a British consultancy’s index on greenhouse gas emissions, but trails well behind UAE, Australia and the United States. According to Gazprom chief Alexander Medvedev, falling demand saw European c...
City Hall officials have apparently received $38.6 million in kickbacks from winners of state this year, according to the head of the Federal Financial Monitoring Service. RFE/RL suggests that Kyrgyzstan would be unwise to join Russia’...
TODAY: Bout in detention in New York, Thailand fears Russia will cut ties; Kashin may give evidence today; one year on, US renews calls on Magnitsky case; Medvedev to reorganize Russian territory? Military aid to Lebanon includes 31 tanks; S...
Jackson Diehl on Russia’s reaction to Thailand’s extradition of Viktor Bout: “Extreme unjustice,” fumed Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. Said the Foreign Ministry: “There is no doubt that the illegal extradition of V.A...
You have to hand it to the Nashi – they do a better job communicating what they are truly about than any of their critics can imagine. Some people might sensibly suggest that an organization funded by the government that invokes Nazi p...
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