‘It would take a long while to collect $100 billion, but it would start to make life very difficult for the Russian Federation’. The international ruling in favor of Yukos shareholders is ’embarrassing for Russia’ say...
The Economic Development Ministry has posted more optimistic forecasts for economic growth next year, from 1.6% to 2.5%, with higher oil prices likely to be behind the new momentum. Russia’s planned debt sale may also be reduced due to...
TODAY: Activists call for investigation into death of journalist Olga Kotovskaya, ruled as suicide, they say murder; Magnitsky letters reveal extent of abuse; the judiciary fights back against corruption. OSCE unexcited by Medvedev pact; Rog...
“A photographic portrait is a picture of someone who knows he’s being photographed, and what he does with this knowledge is as much a part of the photograph as what he’s wearing or how he looks. He’s implicated in what̵...
U.S. National Public Radio has a five minute segment today on the challenges Russian small businesses face in an environment that favours government-dependent organisations: Not a lot of shockers in here, but just thought I’d draw attention ...
Writing in Foreign Policy about who got left of the magazine’s Top 100 list of global thinkers, Moisés Naím shows that there’s no love lost between him and contemporary Russia. Ouch! But if pressed to contradict this statem...
Here’s an interesting bit from a Transitions Online opinion article about President Dmitry Medvedev’s state-centered modernization proposal: Such an approach may have worked for Germany and Japan in the late 19th century, or the East A...
I have read Ivan Krastev’s curious article in the Washington Post today, and although there were some parts that weren’t quite so persuasive (Russia is not “a declining power”), he does get it right about how Washington fai...
The Financial Times is running a special report today on energy security, taking note that most governments in Europe still haven’t figured out how to tell their voters that alternative energy strategies may be costly now but valuable for th...
Today we are seeing a lot of interesting discussions on yesterday’s court decision which found that Russia is still bound by the Energy Charter Treaty, making them potentially liable in a suit being brought by Yukos shareholders for the expr...
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