Coming to this a few days late – the Wall Street Journal published a lengthy account last week of Sibir Energy and its beleaguered top shareholder, former real estate magnate Chalva Tchigirinsky. There’s not a lot new here to anyone wh...
There are a number of media outlets reporting on the most recent NATO-Russia foxtrot, NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen’s call for an “open-minded and unprecedented dialogue” with Russia. Personally, I’d first ra...
At the end of August, I telephoned the well-known Kazakh human rights advocate Yevgeny Zhovtis and asked how things were going on “the front” with the criminal case that had been opened in relation to him. Yevgeny replied that in conne...
Natural Resources Deputy Minister Sergei Donskoi has said that Russia would welcome foreign companies looking to explore the country’s oil and gas reserves as domestic firms lack the ‘strength and money’ to carry out these operat...
Reuters reports that Russia is anxious to see that economic reforms promised by the G20 are realised. The Kremlin’s top economic adviser, Arkady Dvorkovich, has suggested that Russia should begin to ‘interlink the ruble’ wi...
TODAY: Medvedev denounces corruption as main problem in Russia, argues business mentality needs transformation, does not rule out standing at 2012 elections and hints at a possible U-turn on Iran. NATO chief calls for closer cooperation with...
A blogger for Reuters has grabbed some sharp quotes from the always interesting oligarch Alexander Lebedev on the sidelines of the Investment Summit: “The conditions for entrepreneurship in Russia are simply horrible,” Lebedev told the...
This week the Financial Times is running its global health outlook section, and the journalist Miriam Elder (whom you may know from Moscow Times and PostGlobal) has probably the most unique and hard-hitting report: a first person account fro...
OpenDemocracy.net has published translations of correspondence between Mikhail Khdoorkovsky and the famous novelist Lyudmila Ulitskaya, which was originally featured in Novaya Gazeta. The conversation is suprisingly frank and full of persona...
What do Danish cartoons of Mohammed, GQ’s axing of Scott Anderson’s Russia article, and Google’s burying of Tiananmen have in common? Here’s what Anne Applebaum sees in her Washington Post column: Nevertheless, the th...
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