The great oligarch soap opera continues as billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov “apologizes” to Vladimir Putin following the Prime Minister’s sharp, personal attack against him last week, in which he scapegoated Prokhorov for under-inve...
Yes, it has come to this … Russia’s banks have become so terrified to loan, that the Central Bank is actually praising the role of pawnshops in saving the country from a full credit freeze with high-interest loans (see AP story below)....
Alexander Arkhangelsky is consistently one of the more thoughtful and original voices on Russia out there, and – here’s the weird part – he actually works for the state-owned news agency RIA Novosti. Certainly there is a ma...
Somewhere in a plush Italian villa, Berlusconi is feeling very jealous. Cue up a Barry White album for this blog post on the Times of London by Charles Bremner. What a difference three years make. Campaigning for election in early 2007 Nicol...
Mikhail Khodorkovsky published an opinion article in Nezavisimaya Gazeta today. Below is an excerpt from the English translation, the full version of which can be found here. Every year, the judicial-and-police conveyor belt devours the huma...
‘Economically, he’s doing well,‘ Vladimir Putin said of Mikhail Prokhorov. ‘As they say, he cashed out. I have very good relations with him. He is looking where to invest his funds. But he must fulfil his [power investment]...
In France, President Dmitry Medvedev is urging French investors to help Russia modernize its economy. Medvedev has submitted a series of changes for the Criminal Code on economic crimes: remove the article on false entrepreneurship, reduce p...
TODAY: Medvedev in France, Sarkozy claims similar objectives; 5,000-strong rally in Kaliningrad; Rogozin on Russia’s ‘privileged interests’; Media rights group claims Sochi journalists are being pressured into blocking certain co...
But they had better put on their thinking caps. From Ronald D. Asmus of the German Marshall Fund in the Moscow Times: And what is Western policy? In reality, the West today no longer has a grand strategy toward the East. The moral and strate...
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