I’m coming to this story a bit late but can’t resist posting it here. Last week police in Minsk arrested 50 people for taking part in a public pillow fight, according to this AP report (sadly, this is not a joke): On Thursday, club-wie...
TNK-BP, infamous for its often fraught shareholder dealings, has created a Council for Interaction with suppliers and contractors to regulate its activities and create forums for dialogue. Russia’s industrial safety watchdog has drawn ...
The Grain Union has dropped its forecast for this year’s crop even further, due to concerns about the effects of the current drought. If it passes, a new bill to ease licensing restrictions for companies could be a boon to the economy ...
TODAY: City Hall’s education department could face fraud charges; Foreign Ministry defends Fedotov appointment; Medvedev on state media; Yabloko opposes Romanov memorials, Other Russia proposes new capital; heat wave causing power shortages;...
I’ve been getting a real kick out of this “Russian Untouchables” video series put out by Sergei Magnitsky’s legal team – not so much on the facts of the case, which most people around here are already familiar with, b...
Here’s an excerpt from the latest press release from the Browder camp, continuing to ask inconvenient questions about the death of Sergei Magnitsky: Jamison Firestone, an American lawyer, has pledged to carry on the fight with Russian corrup...
Some interesting statistics in the Moscow Times: 82 percent of Russians say police officers are ready to break the law, according to a state-run polling agency. And 32 percent say officers regularly commit crimes. Funnily enough, the Interior Mini...
In his unrelenting push to shape Russia into the global superpower the Soviet Union once was, Putin plans a massive investment in the space industry. The Russian PM announced today Moscow would spend $810 million to kick off the construction of th...
Slammed by rights activists, a Russian court’s decision last week to fine two curators for organizing a provocative art exhibit earns harsh criticism in today’s editorial in the International Herald Tribune: If anyone has lingering dou...
Russia and Bulgaria have signed a ‘road map‘ laying out deadlines for building work on the South Stream gas pipeline, although the director of Bulgaria’s Institute of Energy and Finances reportedly insisted that Sofia ‘trie...
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