This week’s lunch with the FT features Peter Aspden sitting down for some sushi and a harmless bit of obsequiousness with Evgeny Lebedev, the son of Alexander Lebedev. The conversation has some interesting points … such as his po...
I like Michele Berdy’s columns in the Moscow Times. Who knows how many times inaccurate translations have skewed our understanding of Russia in the mass media: Надувать щёки is not, as the otherwise brilliant Kremlin translators would ...
Stephen Fidler at the Wall Street Journal has an interesting piece running today about the annual winter pipeline politics (though the sensible agreement yesterday in Yalta may diminish a lot of fears). There are some interesting facts and n...
Buried down at the bottom of this blog post attacking Obama’s Russia policy (mostly just picking on Joe Biden – it is the National Journal after all), are some interesting quotes from Igor Yurgens – a key advisor to Medvedev and ...
Reports have emerged following yesterday’s meeting between ‘comfortable‘ duo Vladimir Putin and his Ukrainian counterpart, Yulia Tymoshenko. Bloomberg says Putin’s announcement that Ukraine would not be penalized for ...
PricewaterhouseCoopers has released its latest survey of economic crime, and Russia topped the bill, with results ‘well above‘ the global figures. On that note, Kuban Commercial Bank has had its license withdrawn for scheming to ...
TODAY: Praise for moratorium on death penalty overshadowed by Magnitsky’s death – authorities blocking autopsy?; Medvedev dismissed Kremlin aide for abuse of office; NATO concerns about war games dismissed by Rogozin; Orthodox priest m...
They were shooting…Yesterday. In the forest. In Vladimir Oblast. A shot thundered practically right over my head. Luckily for me and for the duck flushed from the mirror-like marsh, the hunter missed. Если Вы хотите прочитать оригинал данной...
Andrew Meier has penned an epic, wide ranging profile of the second trial of Mikhail Khodorkovsky in The New York Times Magazine, which captures a sense of the courtroom, the personalities, and the historical context of the affair. For reade...
Below is the text of a letter from the law firm Firestone Duncan to clients and staff regarding the death of Sergei Magnitsky (I apologize for the conflicting spellings of his name). November 18, 2009 Dear clients, partners and friends, On the nig...
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