Running a civil society NGO in Russia is incredibly difficult. Not only do basic operations for the smallest of outfits require more paperwork than a nuclear power plant, they are straddled by costs exceeding the establishment of a corporation and...
Anne Applebaum has a new book review out of Peter Pringle’s “The Murder of Nikolai Vavilov.” Vavilov’s story is a poignant reminder of the enormous potential of achievement of Russian minds, and the state’s consistent...
Some of you may be too young to remember, but back in the late 1970s, the American oilman Nelson Bunker Hunt sought to protect his windfall profits from developing Libyan oil fields against inflation by teaming up with his brother, William Herbert...
Con Coughlin has a column in the Telegraph today, which argues that “before Mr Medvedev gets too carried away riding roughshod over Western interests, whether by obstructing Georgia’s attempts to join Nato and the EU, or assisting Iran...
More on Gazprom’s interest in Libyan gas. One analyst says the company is “cornering all the resources”, and another report says the move will “thwart US efforts to limit Moscow’s use of oil and gas as political weapons.” Gazprom has registe...
The labor union at Norilsk Nickel reportedly wants the company’s board to reappoint billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov as its chief executive. Russia has begun replacing its state-run companies’ bureaucrats with independent directors. Russia̵...
TODAY: More UK-Russia rows; population problems threaten economic security; Kasparov in the FT; new democratic political program; regulations for setting up NGOs “more complicated” than those for companies; Russia-Georgia conflict shows no signs o...
After the news that Russia has offered to purchase every cubic inch available of Libya’s natural gas (this follows upon a similar, less publicized offer to Azerbaijan), is it even possible to identify any difference between Gazprom and the f...
Garry’s got a new op/ed in the Financial Times, which, among other arguments, suggests that recent platitudes offered by Terry Davis and Henry Kissinger show an inverse correlation between democracy and the price of gasoline. Robert Mugabe w...
For the BBC, it’s a breaking news story; for author Steve LeVine, it’s the subject of his polemic new book; but for Anthony Lane, the rather apolitical film critic of the New Yorker, Vladimir Putin’s reputation for state-sponsore...
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