From the New York Times editorial: President Bush spent years looking the other way while Mr. Putin harassed opponents, stifled a free press and bullied his neighbors. (A new report that suggests that Georgia had no reason to send troops into a br...
The following is a translation of an article written by Mikhail Khodorkovsky published in Friday’s edition of Vedomosti. А TURN TO THE LEFT, 3 – Global perestroika By Mikhail Khodorkovsky Published in Vedomosti Barack Obama’s victory i...
[I’m pleased to have another contribution here from Oleg Kozlovsky, whom I had the opportunity of meeting with last month. – Robert Amsterdam] First Amendment, Russian Edition Oleg Kozlovsky, Coordinator of Oborona youth movement On 5t...
[In September, the Russian academic Boris Sokolov was fired from his university as well as from a newspaper where he contributed a regular column after writing materials questioning the Russian government’s position on events in Georgia. Our...
This bit comes from Andreas Umland writing in the Asia Times Online: However, in the middle of his long speech, Medvedev also voiced a sharp critique of historical Russian statism, and did not hesitate to hail the adoption of the Russian constitut...
Jason Bush at BusinessWeek has a very interesting piece today: Mysterious lawsuits targeting prominent financial institutions could become the latest worry for foreign investors in Russia. Earlier this year, Hermitage Capital Management, an invest...
It’s always fun when BRICs invest in other BRICs. Today India’s state-owned energy firm ONGC has been cleared by Russia’s anti-monopoly service for a $2.6 billion takeover Imperial Energy. It will be interesting to see if this st...
A meeting between Dmitry Medvedev and Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi has led to a series of agreements in the energy sector – as well as the usual criticisms of Berlusconi’s style. TMK, which produces steel pipes for the energy sec...
A new poll by VTsIOM suggests that almost half of Russians fear that the credit crisis will cause them to lose their jobs. This article praises Alexei Kudrin’s role in accumulating the stabilization fund that is now keeping Russia afloat. The Audi...
TODAY: Obama ‘ignored’ Medvedev, says Russian newspaper; Bush administration to engage with Russia over anti-missile measures; lawmakers intend to amend constitution, Kasparov sets up opposition group; Svetlana Bakhmina withdraws request for pardo...
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