It is very simple. Make a determined effort of complete and total judicial inaction, doing nothing at all to hold anyone accountable for the most high profile journalist murder in recent memory. The message is clear that all such cases...
My apologies for the sparse postings as of late. I wish I could say that I was on vacation, but the truth is this has been exceptionally busy summer, with a few too many transatlantic flights. Back to business: Here is a little s...
Anybody who regular uses Twitter may have been frustrated yesterday by the two hour outage, as well as some irregularities at Facebook. What you may not have known is that it was all caused by a massive, coordinated attack against one Georgi...
From the Financial Times article on Dmitry Medvedev’s ordering of a probe into state-owned corporations. The president has positioned himself as more liberal than his predecessor, often vowing to cut red tape and limit Russia’s vast bu...
Given all the news this week of Russia and Italy’s South Stream deal with Turkey in exchange for a nuclear power plant, I thought I would repost an article written by Robert Amsterdam last fall in Energy Risk on Turkey’s political pipe...
Streetwise Professor picks apart two dovetailing pieces of news – the first that Russia is making unprecedented pressures on ExxonMobil’s Sakhalin-1 project to export more of its production for domestic consumption inside Russia, follo...
When wide scale protests over wage arrears broke out in the town of Pikalyovo, near St. Petersburg, this past June, Vladimir Putin leaped into action to put out the fire. He toured the factories, met with protest leaders, called the Kremlin-...
Vladimir Putin has rejected the 15-year old international Energy Charter Treaty. According to the Prime Minister, Turkey and Russia ‘agreed on everything’ regarding South Stream at their energy deal meeting and added, ‘it i...
In the latest crackdown on the allegedly illegal activities of Telman Ismailov, his Praga restaurant in Moscow has been searched. Despite ongoing talks, apparently ‘little progress‘ was made between GM and Magna on its bid for Op...
TODAY: Georgia and Russia, one year on, guns quiet but war of words blazing: who started it? Opposition says democracy far off; humanitarian issues remain; strike on Twitter linked to conflict. Chavez military deal; Russia to calm Uzbe...
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