I’ve already written on this blog that I think it’s great that Mikhail Prokhorov is going to buy the New Jersey Nets NBA team, and invest himself in the success of Brooklyn. Writing in the Daily News, Alexander Nazaryan raises so...
This comes from a book review published in the Financial Times of Humphrey Hawksley’s latest, Democracy Kills: What’s So Good About Having the Vote? Funny how we always see Russia as the case study most often cited as why develop...
The Financial Times enumerates Gazprom’s problems: are its ambitions to increase production any more than pipe dreams? Competition for energy reserves in the Arctic Circle could prompt friction between Russia and NATO, a new commander ...
Corporate truce: Norway’s Telenor and Russian partner Alfa have settled their long-standing legal wranglings and decided to pool their Russian and Ukrainian assets into a New-York listed mobile operator. The Moscow Times reports that P...
TODAY: Lavrov keeps eagle eye on Georgia; Netanyahu’s fears about Russian rogue scientists; Chubais takes the fall for hydropower plant disaster. Litvinenko widow despairs over apparent British moves towards rapprochement. Luzhko...
Recently at the House of Journalists in Moscow a book launch event was held by Igor Sutyagin – who is well known not only as a fellow of the USA and Canada Institute, but also as one of Russia’s most famous political prisoners, after g...
Paul Goble has a good report summarizing an argument from Vadim Dubnov published in Gazeta.ru about Russia’s business of politics – how having so many officials with multi-million dollar business interests creates, well, conflicts of i...
Fred Hiatt of the Washington Post has a new column which digs up a number of quotes from American officials over the years which illustrate how often they have been willing to assume a certain level of rational thinking going on inside the Kremlin...
Finrosforum has translated and posted the opinion article/open letter by the dissident journalist Alexander Podrabinek, which eventually prompted death threats and harassment by the Nashi, driving him into hiding. One does not need to blame the ow...
The most dramatic account I’ve ever seen about the shooting of Paul Joyal (he did survive, and often shows up at Washington DC-area events on Russia), who was a producer on NBC Dateline’s story to report on the murder of Alexander Litv...
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