TODAY: 35,000 cases of corruption uncovered this year; Russia demands that NATO limit troops in new member states; Sobyanin begins dismissing officials; Sochi activist badly beaten; environmental protests on the horizon; Kasparov on the opposition...
Alexander Lebedev, former spy, recovering oligarch, occasional supporter of opposition, and owner of a burgeoning British media empire, has begun posting some very interesting – if sometimes confusing – conversational YouTube videos on...
It’s easy to admire Yana Yakovleva. There aren’t many business people who are able to escape from 7 months of bogus pre-trial detenion, and then actually stick around to do something about it. Her work at Business Solidarit...
Simon Tisdall of the Guardian checks in on the whole NATO-Europe-Russia rapprochement, asking what, exactly, the Russians have done to earn so much goodwill and reversal of positions among French, German, and of course, the Washington policy commu...
President Dmitry Medvedev has articulated Russia’s need for energy efficiency in the housing sector by threatening irresponsible governors, and anticipates major investment into efficiency retrofits from domestic and foreign sources, reports...
Is Vasily Anisimov’s 20% stake in Metalloinvest worth $4 billion? He’s on the hunt for a buyer: ‘I am 59 years old, and I work 18 hours a day. I would like to spend more time with my family.‘ Anders Aslund praises Rus...
TODAY: Transparency International says Russian corruption worse than last year; Gorbachev speaks against government; Sobyanin appoints new team; Russia to return to Afghanistan? Census results show disparities; Putin on Solzhenitsyn; rights ...
This week my law firm participated in the filing of a preliminary report on behalf of the Thai Red Shirt movement and others to notify the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court with regard to the situation of recent political violence, ar...
A translation of an amusing quote from Chadayev – he probably meant to compare Skolkovo to San Jose, but couldn’t remember the name the city. Vegas? Close enough. Alexey Chadayev, head of the political department of the «Un...
From Stephen Blank on the Huffington Post: Russia’s main interest in attempting to buy out BP’s Eurasian holidngs is not profit so much as power. Indeed, all the recent projects it has announced with Central Asia for both oil and gas a...
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