The disintegration of Ukraine continues. This morning, reports have surfaced of a raid on the state energy company, Naftogaz, by the SBU. Described by President Viktor Yushchenko as a criminal investigation into the company at the center of the ga...
Writing in The Moscow Times, Nikolay Petrov of the Carnegie Moscow Center suggests that United Russia wasn’t as successful in this week’s regional elections as commonly believed. “United Russia leaders tout the fact that the part...
The aftermath of Obama’s ‘secret letter‘ to Russia has been pretty engrossing. From allegations of quid pro quo, to open assaults on his foreign policy, the event suggests just how polarizing Russia has become, as a host of issue...
If the price of oil continues to fall, Russia may re-impose capital controls (abandoned in 2006), a move that, one analyst suggested, would see investors reacting ‘hysterically’. The energy deal signed by Russia and Spain yesterd...
Many of Russia’s scrap steel yards are set to close this year as production is declining dramatically along with demand. Billionaire Suleiman Kerimov has reportedly bought 20% of mining company Polyus Gold from Vladimir Potanin for aro...
TODAY: Obama denies ‘quid pro quo’, Russia open to discussion despite initial refusals of exchange, cooperates on Afghanistan route; Medvedev backing bills to support small political parties; Orlando Figes says Stalin book pulled for p...
From Phillip P. Pan in the Washington Post: The government’s decision to put Khodorkovsky on trial a second time on new charges of embezzling nearly 350 million tons of crude oil and laundering more than $20 billion of the proceeds has fed s...
The latest spectacle in the “Khodorkovsky trial” theatrical series: On 3 March of the year 1585, the first-ever theatre in a building purposely built for it opened in Vicenza (Italy). The “Teatro Olimpico” exists to this da...
From Yulia Latynina in the Moscow Times: Of all the official statements coming from the government and big business over the past few weeks, three stand out as most important. First, multibillionaire Oleg Deripaska announced that he would not requ...
So apparently, President Barack Obama thinks that Peter Baker at the New York Times missed the point on his secret letter to Dmitry Medvedev … but we can be less sure whether or not this even matters, as the Russians have already roundly rej...
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