A note from the editor: After about two and half years, more than 3,000 blog posts, and a respectably growing readership, the Robert Amsterdam blog has undergone a design makeover. Among the new features, readers will notice the horizontal t...
Putin, you’re angry – that means you’re not right* Grigory Pasko, journalist During the time of a meeting with Finnish premier Matti Vanhanen on 12 November of the year 2007, Russian premier Vladimir Putin for the f...
Without a paper you – are a bug, but with a paper – a person* Grigory Pasko, journalist The Strasbourg court asked me to send them a document in supplement to my application – a document about how I had received a pension ...
The Wall Street Journal editorial board isn’t too happy with French President Nicholas Sarkozy’s decision to resume negotiations on the EU-Russia Partnership Cooperation Agreement without Russia having fulfilled the terms of the ceasef...
A group of former Yukos shareholders has begun its long promised legal campaign to sue the Russian government for damages caused by the unlawful nationalization of Yukos. GML (formerly known as Group Menatep) and a pension fund represe...
From the Moscow Times: There are two reasons why Putin rushed to change the Constitution only six months after stepping down as president. First, he sees the political and economic dangers of falling oil prices. The house of cards built on an eigh...
This weekend the Washington Post carried a story about the rapidly growing base of support to free the pregnant Yukos lawyer Svetlana Bakhmina, whom we’ve blogged about many times. What started with one open letter to President Dmitry ...
Russia, Iran and Qatar, the new OPEC-style ‘gas troika‘, is to meet later this month to agree on a draft charter. Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan have agreed to cooperate on setting up an oil transport system that will bypass Russia.&n...
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