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October 13, 2008

Grigory Pasko: Women’s Prison Colonies in Russia

Women’s colony – hell bedecked in flowers By Grigory Pasko, journalist Если Вы хотите прочитать оригинал данной статьи на русском языке, нажмите сюда. From the editor: Former YUKOS lawyer Svetlana Bakhmina has been transferred to colony № 21, whic...
October 13, 2008

Russia’s False Friendship with Iran

A few years ago, RA had a series of blog posts arguing that in terms of geopolitical interests, energy, and simple geography, Washington and Tehran could find that they have much more in common than the fiery and hostile diplomacy (or lack thereof...
October 13, 2008

Kremlin Control over Economy to Grow during Crisis

Today the Lex column at the FT points toward the massive redistribution of assets happening in Russia as a result of the global financial crisis, and the routing being experienced by a number of the country’s most wealthy oligarchs (Oleg Der...
October 13, 2008

Fostering Interdependence

This idea comes from a column by Aleh Tsyvinski in the Moscow Times: Trying to erect an Iron Curtain around Russian funds and businesses will prove counterproductive. Indeed, a large-scale “invasion” of Russian business would be a posi...
October 13, 2008

Unbundling Undone: The End of the Gazprom Clause

Competition authorities in the European Union face a very tough challenge in regulating foreign investment in energy infrastructure. For political reasons, it’s clear that they desire a level of “reciprocity” in the home market o...
October 13, 2008

Energy Blast – Oct 13, 2008

Smaller oil exploration companies across the UK’s energy sector will struggle to keep afloat due to debt refinancing issues caused by the financial crisis. Gazprom is looking likely to post some of its strongest profit margins this quarter due to ...
October 13, 2008

Today in Russian Business – Oct 13, 2008

Russia’s Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin says that the government is planning to invest money from its pensions fund in the stock market, and has called for the IMF to take action to help developing economies ‘caught in the whirlwind of the g...
October 13, 2008

RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – Oct 13, 2008

TODAY: Medvedev oversees missile test; United Russia wins regions across the country; Russia prefers Obama; anti-Russia party wins Lithuanian elections; Deripaska links dog British politician; Einstein. Attending a test firing of two strategic mis...
October 12, 2008

Grigory Pasko: Strasbourg Decides on First Russian Spy Case

The European Court of Human Rights has satisfied the application of former deputy director of the first department of Asia of the MFA of Russia Valentin Moiseyev, sentenced by the Moscow City Court in the year 2001 for state treason to 4.5 years o...
October 12, 2008

21st Century Propaganda Wars

From a book review in the Economist: You could read Mr Vaughan’s book, substituting ex-Soviet countries such as Estonia for Czechoslovakia. With Kremlin talk of “privileged interests” in Russia’s neighbourhood, and a litany of real and imagined gr...