I am very grateful for the support of IHT editor Serge Schmemann for the terrible and unjust plight of my client, Mikhail Khodorkovsky. The case against and for Khodorkovsky By Serge Schmemann Sunday, October 19, 2008 This month marks five years s...
I can’t confirm all of these rumors as fact at this point, but well informed friends from Moscow have been calling me all morning with news that major announcements by Russia’s financial authorities will be made early this week in atte...
This afternoon and evening I have put in a number of hours working on the case of Dr. Chee Soon Juan to prepare for the events of next week (read more here and here). I’ve been doing a lot of reading, and making many calls to various contact...
From the Wall Street Journal: There is of course a long line of goons happy to take military, energy or economic handouts from the Kremlin, though the dramatic drop in oil prices and Russian stocks will limit its ability to buy people off. Mr. Luk...
Andrew Kramer has a piece in today’s New York Times which examines how so many of Russia’s most wealthy people lost so much money in so little time during the current financial crisis. Not a lot of new information, but some interesting...
As reported on yesterday’s news blast, Mikhail Gorbachev has come out in support of Svetlana Bakhmina, one of the Yukos prisoners who along with Mikhail Khodorkovsky has spent years illegally imprisoned. Gorbachev has called upon the Russian...
Most readers of this blog are used to occasional coverage of freedom of press issues in Russia, and discussions of the impact on civil society and democracy when the state targets journalists with impunity. As I announced yesterday in a blog post,...
Africa needs Russia’s money more than Russians do? Grigory Pasko, journalist Если Вы хотите прочитать оригинал данной статьи на русском языке, нажмите сюда. The basic products of nutrition – bread, meat, butter, sugar, fish and vegetables – have i...
The FT is running a report about Oleg Deripaska’s €48.5m investment in an aluminum smelting plant in Montenegro. Things are going so well over, and apparently the group is applying all the political pressure it can muster in order to secure ...
From Reuters: Putin interrupted a meeting of officials who were discussing the virtues of the Russia’s new satellite global positioning system GLONASS to monitor cattle and wild animals. “Can I use it for my dog?,” he asked, acco...
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