Yesterday we ran a report on the first day of the trial against the human rights leader Yevgeny Zhovtis in Kazakhstan. Before Day 2 could draw to a close, they had already sentenced him to four years, and had thrown him into prison to begin ...
As Grigory Pasko recently reported on this blog, President Dmitry Medvedev will sure have his hands full in his latest campaign to tackle the problem of Russian alcoholism. This piece from Megan K. Stack in the Los Angeles Times reiterates t...
Yesterday I saw this note on FT Lex which essentially argued for the Italian energy company Eni to be split up into two separate companies in order to maximize value. Today they are running another piece about the activist investor group Kni...
UPDATE: A commenter points out that this might not be a story at all... Remember the Ghost Ship story? How all the explanations just didn’t seem to add up? The one Russian military journalist to piece together a coherent theory s...
The Indian President Pratibha Patil has arrived in Moscow to discuss nuclear energy among other issues. In August, Russia increased oil production by 1.3% in comparison with 2008, as Lukoil and Rosneft both increased production in new fields...
The Moscow Times reports that the government spent $10.7 billion of the state budget on fighting the financial crisis in the first six months of the year. A Russian-Indian project to build a titanium factory in east India has been jeopardize...
TODAY: Russia looks for greater role in Afghan war; Ingush president pleads for vigilance. Opposition ousted from Moscow race; Rushydro bans reporter; piracy expert flees; war on drinking. Ingush President Yunus-Bek Yevkurov has warned that ...
We’ve covered this Kyrgyzstan double-dipping story a couple of times here, but Alexander Golts latest piece over at RealClearWorld sums it up nicely – including the tale of the embarrassing trip made by Igor Sechin and Anatoly Serdyuko...
Angela Merkel is about as gracious as they come. During the Danzig Summit, there seemed no crime of WWII that she was unwilling to accept responsibility for: “I pay tribute to the 60m people who lost their lives in this war unlea...
Russia is far from alone in the neighborhood in its staging of show trials and corralling of political prisoners, and in fact, what is happening to human rights advocate Yevgeny Zhovtis of Kazakhstan, shows an measurably deeper level of political ...
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