Coach Prokhorov?
Couldn’t help but be amused by the eye-catching headline ‘Mikhail Prokhorov to the rescue!‘ and accompanying article in today’s WSJ, which seems to inscribe Prokhorov’s multi-million dollar investment in the Russian B...
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Magnitsky’s Alleged Killers Lose their Visas
At the end of last month, Sen. Benjamin Cardin requested a visa ban against the 60 or so members of the Russian government who stand accused of ignoring the plight of lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, who died following medical mistreatment in prison. ...
Video: Steven Pifer on U.S.-Russia Relations
Obama’s Russia Policy Becomes Fodder for Republicans
It really wasn’t a question of if, but when. Today the AFP has picked up on some speech notes that Rep. Eric Cantor is planning to deliver before the Heritage Institute in Washington, which may signal that the Republicans are going to ...
From the Department of Mendacious Hypocrites
So yet again this blog, or more specifically my role as editor here, has received another lashing at the hands of an angry blogger, this time our friend AK at Sublime Oblivion. I first read the attack yesterday without much thought or reacti...
Spy Logic
I wonder if this kind of circular spy logic is a thing of the past, or rather the hushed conversations in Kiev over the past year. From Malcolm Galdwell’s latest in the New Yorker. The absurdity of such expression games has been wittil...
Energy Blast – May 4, 2010
The Moscow Times reports that Russia is holding on to the top spot for oil production, pumping out over 10 million barrels a day for the eight month in a row. Bloomberg reports that demand for OPEC oil is set to wane as Russia, China, the US...
Today in Russian Business – May 4, 2010
Novolipetsk Steel Chairman Vladimir Lisin has told the Moscow Times that stimulating production in the face of overtight regulations is Russia’s biggest challenge. Russian private investment bank Renaissance Capital is anticipating dou...
RA’s Daily Russian News Blast – May 4, 2010
TODAY: US-Russia adoption issues remain thorny; Sochi land seizures apparently ‘resolved’; Ukrainian journalists protest; message of trust for Poland from Putin. Plea from Georgian ambassador to UK to Abkhazia; has Lukashenko ove...
Poisonous Relations
Joshua Foust, one of our favorite Central Asia bloggers over at Registan.net, has begun dropping in more regularly on Steve Levine’s Oil and Glory – this time reviewing Boris Volodarsky’s book on KGB/GRU/FSB obsession with poison...