If you were worried about what Mechel means for Russian business, this was the last piece of news you wanted to hear: government officials are working hard to soothe fears of the company’s collapse, and promising that Mechel will not suffer ...
[Editor’s note: Andrei Novikov is a Russian journalist, who at one point was subjected to involuntary psychiatric confinement after publishing articles critical of local government. His case first rose to international attention on this blog...
There is a lot of interesting discussion regarding the motives and intentions behind the recent arrest of Serbian war criminal Radovan Karadzic, but perhaps one of the most unusual explanations comes from Andre Gerolymatos, who argues that there m...
The gloves are off in Russia over the TNK-BP dispute, as CEO Tony Hayward is showing himself increasingly willing to speak clearly about the dodgy investment environment, perhaps with the goal of scaring off some FDI and reminding the Kremlin that...
During his speech in Berlin, the presumptive Democratic nominee for President Sen. Barrack Obama bowled over the swooning audiences with non-specific idealism and general statements of a renewed liberal internationalism – an exposition which...
Read Yulia Latynina on the Mechel affair: “It sticks out like a sore thumb that this is already Premier Putin’s second attempt at direct interference in the economy.” Putin yesterday accused Mechel of evading taxes by selling products at bargain p...
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has publicly given support to a plan to spend $2.7 billion through 2015 to boost the chemical industry. Putin’s attack on Mechel has sent the Russian stock market to its lowest level since 2006. Hermitage Capital says...
TODAY: Russia wants to swap NATO for EATO? Kasparov on Russia and Obama; military desertions drop; scientists attempt to reach bottom of Lake Baikal. Russia wants to form a new bloc, currently being referred to as “EATO” – Euro-Atlantic Trea...
The photo to the left shows Vladimir Putin, along with Viktor Khristenko and Governor Valery Shantsev, arriving last Thursday to Nizhny Novgorod to meet with the country’s top metals producers (source: AP). A few hours later Putin would surp...
For quite some time we have carefully followed lawyer Boris Kuznetsov’s clash with Russia’s FSB as an emblematic case of the Kremlin’s war on lawyers and the independence of the judiciary. Since being granted political asylum in ...
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