Video: Hitting the Reset Button (Back to the Cold War)
Like a time machine taking us much further back than we wanted, this news clip points out that Russia has its own idea what the “reset” button really means.
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Power Sharing in Practice at TNK-BP
These two appointments show some progress in one of Russia’s most disastrous corporate governance problems, but the lack of normal legal recourse is notable in how these two parties settle their disputes. From the Financial Times: The ...
Nemtsov for Mayor of Sochi
Quite the hullabaloo surrounding the registration for mayoral candidates for the city of Sochi, which will be hosting the 2014 Winter Olympic Games. If opposition leader Boris Nemtsov can’t win, then Alexander Lebedev is probably the s...
Grigory Pasko: Comrade Sechin Gets a Good Oil Deal with China?
Comrade Sechin, the oil economist? Grigory Pasko, journalist Inasmuch as I’m not an economist, I didn’t pay much attention to a report from the Bloomberg agency. However, there are more observant people on Live Journal. One of them, a ...
Venezuela Juggles Russian Bombers
Will he or won’t he? Grigory Pasko sent us this Kommersant article (which we have duly exclusively translated below) about the latest twist in a flurry of flip-flopping these past few days as to whether or not Venezuela really has offered to...
Amid Economic Crisis, Deepening Legal Nihilism
As many readers are well aware, yesterday Judge Viktor Danilkin of the Khamovniki District Court in Moscow concluded pre-trial hearings against the political prisoner Mikhail Khodorkovsky by rejecting all appeal motions brought by the defense to s...
A Counterweight to Fair Elections
Economy begins to crumble. Population becomes dissatisfied with leadership in light of crumbling economy. Independent candidates win regional mayoral elections, reflecting shift of public opinion against leadership. Leadership ch...
The Not-So-Russian Venture Company
The Russian Venture Company, initially created to finance technology startups and to spur investment and innovation within Russia, stands accused of using its funds instead for overseas investment. The Prosecutor General’s Office estim...
Energy Blast – March 18th, 2009
‘An optimistic assessment of the Nabucco project would be that it is in deep trouble.’ A consortium of Russian companies is to join with Petroleos de Venezuela to create a joint venture to work on oil projects ‘not only in ...
Today in Russian Business – March 18th, 2009
Is the government looking to raise import tariffs to lessen the influx of foreign goods? GE Capital is suffering from bad loans in Russia. Russia’s 30 largest banks reportedly doubled their collective profit in January by specula...