It has been a while since we have blogged about ye ‘ole energy struggle between the Austrian company OMV and the Hungarian company MOL, which last year seemed to be on the cusp of blowing up into a major dispute over minority shareholder rig...
This one comes from the Economist: BIG changes in Russian political life are often ushered in by trials. The first show trial of the Shakhty engineers in 1928 paved the way for Stalin’s consolidation of power in 1929. The 1935-36 trials of K...
Here is a weird one from a NYTimes blog: In Russia last week, two mothers were ordered by the courts to exchange the two-year-old boys whom they had each raised from birth but who did not belong to them. A nurse — the only one on duty in the...
Oil prices have climbed back up to over $50 a barrel. An explosion on a 30-year-old pipeline in Moldova, severely reducing Russian gas supplies to the Balkans, has been almost entirely repaired. Was OMV always a front for the Russian group S...
Reports say that inflation reached 5.3% by the end of March. Vladimir Putin states that the government will not close the domestic market to imported goods. Car plant Izhavto will shut down indefinitely, entailing 5,000 job losses; Ole...
TODAY: New START treaty by the end of the year; Russia on the global stage; Putin – the new emperor?; journalist dies in mysterious circumstances; no opposition broadcasts before Sochi election; copper-workers feeling the crunch; Lenin...
A small but powerful news article in English brought to our attention by Helga Brekkan, the Stockholm-based documentary filmmaker making a movie about Grigory Pasko. Here’s a short version: The Russians have arranged a feel-good junket to th...
The Russian blogosphere is buzzing with talk about yesterday’s vicious assault on human rights activist Lev Ponomarev in Moscow. One particularly hot topic right now is the sensational discovery that a premature report of Ponomarev’s d...
The Khodorkovsky & Lebedev Communications Center has issued its latest newsletter, containing the following article signed by the defense team. Please consider dropping by the site to sign up for the list. As the G20 Gather in London, Co...
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