TNK-BP chief Robert Dudley has sent a letter to five federal agencies, lodging official complaints over what he is calling “an abuse of power by the State Labor Inspectorate.” In a retaliatory measure following the war with Georgia, the US is set ...
An initial report from Interfax, erroneously saying that Mikhail Khodorkovsky‘s parole request had been granted, fueled a 1.6% jump in the Russia market within 10 minutes – a rise of $12 billion in real terms. When Interfax posted a co...
TODAY: Russian lawmakers recognize independence of Georgian rebel regions; Ukraine wants to join Nato for protection against Russia; troops still not fully withdrawn despite calls from the West. Medvedev to foster relationship with Jordan, Israeli...
This one comes from Peter Gumbel in TIME Magazine: But heightened political tensions between Russia and the West are sure to prompt potential investors to take an even longer, closer look before plunging into the Russian market. There has been tal...
The following is an exclusive translation of an interview with Mikhail Khodorkovsky that appeared in the Russian Vedomosti newspaper on Thursday, in the middle of Khodorkovsky’s two-day parole hearing, before the request for parole was denie...
Writing at the New Republic, Paul Berman has seven thoughts about the war in Georgia. 2) The vast and irreversible effects of the invasion of Georgia will be felt everywhere in the ex-Soviet bloc, and not just there. Each of the ex-bloc countries ...
From EurasiaNet: RFE/RL correspondent Heather Maher put this question to Anne-Marie Slaughter, the dean of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University, the former president of the American Society of Inter...
From the Wall Street Journal Law Blog: Judge Igor Falileyev, holding court in the Siberian city of Chita, rejected Khodorkovsky’s request for an early release from an eight-year sentence for tax evasion and fraud, according to an AP report. The ju...
Today a Russian judge announced that Mikhail Khodorkovsky’s request for parole has been denied. You can read coverage here and here. My brief statement: The Russian court has demonstrated a continued willingness to engage in Kafka-esque thea...
Gazprom’s plan to boost investment spending by 25% this year “shocked” analysts due to its indication that the company has “unacceptable” free cash flow. Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin says that long-term falling oil export prices migh...
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