It’s been a tough year for the Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska. Today he lost a major decision in the big case he is fighting in London against his former business partner Michael Cherney, who is claiming that he owns a stake in the...
I have long argued that there exists a component of Russia’s failure to reform, deepen democracy, and respect rule of law as a normative member of the international community that is solely the responsibility of Western complicity – ou...
No extensive commentary is needed for this one. The Prime Minister flew across some seven time zones to put his signature on the pipe which will bring gas from Sakhalin Island. Exxon, and other foreign participants are reasonably panic...
The French philosopher André Glucksmann has been one of Europe’s most outspoken advocates in support of liberty of Russian political prisoners, such as Mikhail Khodorkovsky. Here in City Journal is a translation of a thought piece by G...
When I’m abroad, I often get asked who of the leaders of the Russian opposition I think stands out in some way. Usually I name Boris Nemtsov, Garry Kasparov, and Vladimir Ryzhkov. In doing so I always reiterate that I am not a political scie...
At Medvedev’s meeting with with the presidents of Afghanistan, Pakistan and Tajikistan, he emphasized the importance of energy projects as that which ‘really helps governments that need to strengthen their economy’. Timan O...
A draft 2010 budget has been approved by the government, which sees large cuts in the improvement of transport infrastructure and rural development, but welfare spending prioritized. The government is reportedly considering borrowing from th...
TODAY: Medvedev pushes for cooperation in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Tajikistan. Lavrov says no justification for Ukrainian expulsions; mortars rumble in South Ossetia as anniversary tensions brew; Russia puts the no in NATO. Journalist...
Nobody to keep him under surveillance? Grigory Pasko, journalist Boris Nemtsov doesn’t have any guesses as to who attached a mobile telephone with a tracking function underneath his car. And I don’t either. Nor do you, I’ll warra...
As readers are likely aware, things are more or less the same in Chisinau following the hotly contested and flawed election. The opposition to Vladimir Voronin and the Communist Party gained 53 seats in the parliament, which is enough to for...
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