Oleg Deripaska will not be settling a $2.4 billion lawsuit brought against him in Russia, as he had hoped, but in London. During his trip to Lake Baikal, Prime Minister Putin said it was not entirely impossible that the paper and pulp mill t...
TODAY: Tensions raised in Georgia; Russia reserves right to use force as question of mortar attacks emerges; Kokoity pledges desire to unite with Russia. Moscow secures second base in Kyrgyzstan; Belarus halts task force. Putin does Ca...
Below is the continuation of Grigory Pasko’s exclusive interview with Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov, who talks about the Putin-Medvedev diarchy, Gerhard Schroeder, Barack Obama, and the second trial of Mikhail Khodorkovsky. Read pa...
Writing in the Guardian, Anna Blundy is not all that impressed with the latest contribution to the oligarch literature: Londongrad by Mark Hollingsworth and Stewart Lansley The wives and girlfriends “flock” to Courchevel and “des...
Interesting story from VOA: Joaquim Crima, a 37-year old native of Guinea Bissau, in West Africa, is running for district chief, in a small village in central Russia. He is likely the first black person to ever be a candidate in Russia. Joaquim Cr...
In the trial of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, we’ve seen a long record of witness harassment, threats, and intimidation – including the medical blackmail against Vasily Aleksanyan to procure false testimony, and the story of torture against An...
Craig Pirrong, who blogs at the Streetwise Professor, has a post up over at Seeking Alpha about Gazprom’s collision with ExxonMobil over Sakhlin-1 gas exports. The Russian government’s inability to honor contracts and property ri...
Below is just a taste of a very interesting and intensely argued op/ed published in Vzglyad by author Kirill Benediktov responding to the much-ballyhooed Joe Biden comments. The translation comes via RealClearWorld’s Compass Blog ̵...
I assume that it is Vladislav Surkov who must be in charge of constantly coming up with new public media stunts for Vladimir Putin to build upon his cult of personality. The judo demonstrations, the skiing, the topless fishing trip, the Sibe...
Here’s a bit from the Moscow Times about Gunvor dropping its libel lawsuit against the Economist: A businessman close to Timchenko said he “succumbed to his emotions.” He later learned that the proceedings would be open and that ...
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