On Tuesday, Feb. 2, Robert Amsterdam participated in the forum panel “The Rule of Law in Russia” alongside human rights lawyer Karinna Moskalenko and Andrei Illarionov.
Here goes an unusually creative grassroots effort to raise awareness of the second trial of Mikhail Khodorkovsky. From the Moscow Times: Mikhail Khodorkovsky chocolate bars and coarse brown mittens that he could have knitted in prison were d...
Lots of videos out there on YouTube today from the Troika Dialog Russia Investment Forum. Roubini sees growth recovering to around 5% growth for Russia, allowing for cautious optimism. However the economist Edmund Phelps says that Russ...
It was too long ago that Vladimir Putin and the billionaire Rusal owner Oleg Deripaska were catching a lot of flak for the state’s preferential bailout of the corporate giant – like similar complaints in the U.S. bailout, many felt as ...
From a posting published over on the Khodorkovsky & Lebedev Communications Center which argues that 10,000 people on the streets of Kaliningrad over the weekend is a notable development: So what is new here? During the transition between Vladi...
Opposition movement Solidarity is opposing a government plan to invest $33 billion in nuclear energy over the next ten years, citing security and environmental concerns, high costs and the potential damage to tourism. Oleg Deripaska’s ...
Russia’s budget deficit could reach 6.8% of GDP this year – worse than last year. But Alexei Kudrin expects foreign direct investment to return to pre-crisis levels of $60-70 billion. Perhaps a face-to-face meeting with Dmi...
TODAY: Medvedev’s think-tank to press for return to Yeltsin-era policies? Kaliningrad protests have officials worried, reports say; Russia and US reach nuclear reduction agreement ‘in principle’; police rally round commander accu...
An unsanctioned rally – is the same kind of term as a juicy fact. Artificially thought up, pulled out of a hat by cowardly and dependent people. A rally can’t be sanctioned – according to the Constitution of the RF, it is sanctio...
While the blogosphere is running rampant with speculation about former Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson’s assertion that the Russian government attempted to economically attack the United States by pressuring China to sell Fannie Mae and Fred...
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