Russian billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov is being profiled on 60 Minutes (CBS) this weekend, and here goes a preview. I like Prok and the fact that he is coming to the United States, and I think that these flashes of independence could lead to ...
Yes, I am easily entertained. From the New York Times on the “finalizing” of a new arms control deal between the U.S. and Russia. Mrs. Clinton said that she did not anticipate any trouble getting the agreement ratified by the Sen...
Try not to laugh. From the Economist on the Yukos-Rosneft legal battle, emphasis mine. The injunctions, which stop Rosneft from making payments from its local accounts, have put its oil traders and its creditors into a spin. They put Rosneft...
Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov is calling for his country to ‘forget‘ the past five years of relations with Russia, ‘turn the page and start from a clean slate‘ in order to revise the gas contract between the two. &...
The cost of an average Russian bribe more than doubled last year, and is currently somewhere around $780. State pressure is reportedly weeding out transfer-pricing schemes under which companies – particularly in the coal sector –...
TODAY: Russia dropping two time zones; express train infuriates locals, royalties debate infuriates veterans; US-Russia treaty still on shaky ground; China to invest in Belarus; Kremlin bans ‘Mein Kampf’, Yury Luzhkov hasn’t give...
I used to argue that Russia was one of the easiest places in the world to get thrown in prison over practically nothing – just ask Jamison Firestone or Yana Yakovleva – but Hugo Chavez appears to making Venezuela into a new contender f...
There’s a good blog post by Michael Idov over at the Daily Beast discussing the most recent case of the FSB putting together a variety of hidden camera clips in order to frame up their opponents in depraved situations – this time portr...
Grigory Perelman, Russia’s famous math genius savant and social recluse, has been in the news quite often since solving the world’s most difficult math problem, the Poincare Conjecture, as astounding feat which was called the “Sc...
As soon as you get some fruit involved, you know that Russia’s political unrest is starting to get serious. From the Financial Times on the Kaliningrad protest movement: Many Kaliningraders had trouble explaining the exact corresponden...
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