In preparation for this week’s trial testimony of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, defense lawyers Yuri Schmidt, Vadim Klyuvgant, Natalia Terekhova, Elena Liptser and Konstantin Rivkin held a press conference I was able to attend at the editorial offic...
Mark Brzezinski and A Wess Mitchell have published an interesting guest op/ed in the International Herald Tribune which underscores the importance of deepening U.S. and Central European ties during the upcoming signing of the “Prague Treaty&...
Anne Applebaum takes a stab at explaining Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s sudden change of heart to improve relations with Poland, and recognize the Katyn massacre of 1940. It is certainly not hard to understand why a 70-year-old probl...
ConocoPhillips is poised to launch the first shale gas drilling program in Poland next month, which is thought to have vast reserves of the gas. ExxonMobil, Marathon, and Talisman Energy are set to follow suit, as new shale gas production te...
Russia’s economy expanded last quarter for the first time since 2008, and inflation is at a 12-year low. Kazakhstan and Belarus may pull out of a pact with Russia, designed to boost trade and the WTO accession process, after both saw p...
TODAY: Ingushetia double bombings still unclaimed; new law bans media from printing terrorists’ statements; Khodorkovsky article investigated for ‘extremism’; drivers protest against flashing blue lights of government cars; prote...
Among the regime’s many defenders, the leadership of the Kremlin can count upon a supportive chorus in the West to parlay any criticism of Russia’s democratic bankruptcy – happily pointing to high GDP growth over the past decade,...
Writing in the Washington Post, Masha Lipman sees some problems with the Kremlin’s approach to dealing with the North Caucasus conflict and the rise of radical Islam. Today, the rise of radical Islam in the North Caucasus is inevitable, espe...
One result of Vladimir Putin’s visit to Venezuela was an ageement that Russian oil companies will be permitted to help explore the $30 billion Junin-6 oil field project in exchange for giving Venezuela a $1 billion ‘entry ticket‘...
A new Kremlin ruling will limit companies to issuing no more than 25% of their equity abroad could ‘push companies to re-register offshore in an attempt to escape both Moscow and the restrictions‘. Los Angeles-based International...
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