Writing in the New Republic, Usam Basyaev has some final words about the work and life of the human rights advocate Natalia Estemirova. Basyaev points to the sometimes diverging viewpoints held by Estemirova and her colleague Anna Politkovsk...
As an academic discipline, it’s not just history that is under scrutiny from the state, but also conventional economic theory. This comes from the always bright Konstantin Sonin in the Moscow Times: This doesn’t make sense logica...
If you are a human rights activist in Russia, you are likely risking your life, could have criminal investigations opened against you, get successfully sued for exposing abuses, or even get arrested attending a funeral of one of your fallen collea...
Chen Weidong, a Chinese oil services executive, has published a review of Michael Economides’s book about Yukos and the Russian oil industry on Energy Tribune. The excerpt below is not about Russia, but it was the most shocking part of...
Russia and Cuba have signed an agreement for joint oil exploration in the Gulf of Mexico, with Moscow offering $150 million in credit for construction materials. A recent US Geological Survey has estimated that as much as 9bn barrels of oil ...
Templeton Asset Management’s assets in emerging markets will reportedly be doubled to $50 billion, says company executive chairman Mark Mobius, and Russia may count for 20% of that portfolio, as opposed to its current 10% portion. R...
TODAY: Russia-leaning communists toppled in Moldova; tit for tat diplomacy on Ukrainian diplomat spat. Russia seeks second base in Kyrgyzstan; Georgia war report delayed. Space officials complain about US shuttle jet lag. Solzhen...
Below is an excerpt of a very good article published in the National Post by Pat Akey and Art Durnev, commenting on the very important issue of Magna’s highly political business dealings with Russia (a topic we cover here with some frequency...
During a business trip to Ghana last year, I got into a casual conversation at one point with a local mining executive about the West-vs.-China dynamic when it comes to thinking about the intersection of business, politics and development aid in A...
I wonder why the State Department ended up with such shoddy audio for this video, but it’s good to see them bravely leap out there into the world of social media (Medvedev’s video blog has definitely out-sputniked them in terms of qual...
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