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December 1, 2009

Energy Blast – Dec 1, 2009

An international tribunal has ruled in favor of Yukos shareholders who are seeking up to $100 billion compensation from the Russian government after the company assets were frozen and subsumed into Rosneft in 2006.  The ruling deemed that Rus...
December 1, 2009

Today in Russian Business – Dec 1, 2009

The leader of Russia’s second largest labor union, Boris Kravchenko, is eying a merger with another mass union in an attempt to reinforce the leverage of workers at a time of high unemployment, the Moscow Times reports.  KPMG’s bu...
December 1, 2009

RA’s Daily Russian News Blast – Dec 1, 2009

TODAY: Browder on Magnitsky; Luzkhov wins his Nemtsov libel suit; blogging fury prompts cancellation of dacha tender; HIV rates on the up; discrimination follows apace.  OSCE to discuss Medvedev security proposals; analysts wonder whether dra...
December 1, 2009

Yukos Gets Major Win with ECT Arbitration

From the Wall Street Journal: A European arbitration panel Monday ruled that an expropriation claim valued at up to $100 billion by former shareholders of bankrupt oil giant OAO Yukos can proceed against the Russian government, the plaintiffs said...
November 30, 2009

Grigory Pasko: Déjà Vu with Putin in Paris

I’m listening to Putin, who’s in Paris, and I’m thinking: either I’ve got déjà vu, or he’s got it… Если Вы хотите прочитать оригинал данной статьи на русском языке, нажмите сюда. Paris. 27 November 2009. Mr. V.P...
November 30, 2009

The Patriarch Strikes Back

From Reuters: “We believe the reply will be effective and powerful enough to show these shameful, terrible people that … when the hand of an enemy is lifted against our lives, we are able to defend our citizens,” Patriarch Kirill...
November 30, 2009

Medvedev’s Opportunity

This editorial in the Financial Times argues that despite facing the expected opposition, President Dmitry Medvedev should leap upon the opportunity of the death of Sergei Magnitsky to make serious reforms to both prison conditions and the functio...
November 30, 2009

Washington’s Broken Promise on NATO Enlargement?

As it was so eloquently stated in the leader of Friday’s Economist, President Barack Obama is becoming known as a guy who is easy to push around in terms of foreign policy.  The Kremlin has been given quite a few concessions – mos...
November 30, 2009

Energy Blast – Nov 30, 2009

Flouting IAEA concerns about its nuclear regime, Iran has announced its intention to construct ten new uranium enrichment plants.  ‘Everything possible‘ has been done to ensure the completion of Iran’s first nuclear power st...
November 30, 2009

Today in Russian Business – Nov 30, 2009

Vladimir Putin has confirmed that French car maker Renault will invest $450 million in a technology transfer to struggling Avtovaz, as part of a deal in which the Russian government will also offer the Lada manufacturer a $1.7 billion cash injecti...