Not long ago we posted a video testimony of Labour MP Gisela Stuart commenting on the ongoing show trial of Mikhail Khodorkovsky. Below are several more testimonies from Ed Davey, Greg Hands, Julia Goldsworthy, and Malcolm Bruce.
Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin says he will convince the Finance Ministry to keep the blanket zero duty on oil exports from East Siberia. The quarterly reports are in, with BP recording almost halved annual profits and forecasting a slow ...
McDonald’s is celebrating 20 years of business in Russia, announcing plans for significant expansion this year in the country, which is ‘one of the fastest-growing [fast-food] markets in Europe‘. The country’s first McDonal...
TODAY: Police complain to Interior Ministry; US State Department and Human Rights Watch respond to weekend arrests; Patriarch Kirill completes his first year; Georgia’s Russian-language television station blames Russian censorship for proble...
In Ronald D. Asmus’s new book, he asserts that that Russia has been significantly damaged by its 2008 invasion of Georgia – a familiar argument. Writing in the New York Times, John Vinocur doesn’t believe that any costs hav...
It’s funny how with all these amazingly talented hackers in Russia (who have even crashed Facebook and Twitter), that it is never the Kremlin’s website which gets brought down, but rather Georgian bloggers, Estonian government, and oth...
We’d like to make a quick note of apology here to our readers for the relatively low flow of posts in the past 4-5 days, and assure you that we’ll be back to our regularly scheduled programming shortly. We’re busy preparing for a...
A consortium grouping Lukoil and Norway’s Statoil have signed a final, 20-year deal to develop Iraq’s massive West Qurna oil field. TNK-BP shareholders have ‘no plans to reduce their holdings in the company, and the company...
Russian businessmen attending the World Economic Forum in Davos commented that Lukoil board member and Sberbank CEO German Gref was ‘very bold‘ to speak openly about ‘the mood of fear gripping the private sector‘ in the yea...
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