Wired.com has broken the salacious story of the former U.S. Congressman Curt Weldon, who is currently under investigation by the FBI for attempting to broker several deals between Russia’s state-owned arms exporter, Rosoboronexport, and the ...
Every now and then, we post an exclusive translation from the RBK daily website, which puts up a pretense of being a legitimate business periodical but often tends to get carried away with its fawning sycophancy towards the power. We recently post...
In the fall of 2007, Amsterdam traveled to Singapore for a speech at the International Bar Association, where he struck up a friendship with one of the country’s leading democratic activists, the Dr. Chee Soon Juan. The two found a remarkabl...
Unfortunately, not the right rankings. Today tucked away at the bottom of our Russia News Blast was a note that UK security services have declared the Russian Federation to be the #3 threat to the country’s public security, trailing only beh...
The following joint statement from the Mikhail Khodorkovsky defense team was posted in Russian yesterday on Khodorkovsky.ru. Below is the translation – also see Robert Amsterdam’s comment from last night. Declaration of the defense of ...
Although it seems we hear more out of his sister Nina, Dr. Sergei Khrushchev, son of the former Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, made a recent appearance at the Oregon World Affairs Council to discuss democracy in post-Putin Russia. Fast forward ...
Gazprom sees the price of Russian gas units reaching $500 in Europe by the end of the year. Dmitry Medvedev’s bid to win gas contracts in the Caspian could “tighten the Kremlin’s stranglehold over Europe’s energy supplies”. Gazprom has...
Michael Cherney, the former business partner of Oleg Deripaska, will sue for a 20% stake (worth $4bn) in Rusal in London, after a judge agreed that the case “could not be heard in Russia for fear [Cherney] could be assassinated or arrested on trum...
TODAY: Putin takes Sochi plans off track to comply with environmental organizations, tax cuts for NGOs raise concerns; UK press has reservations about Medvedev’s optimistic outlook on relations; Abramovich resigns as governor of Chukotka; a third ...
It is very positive that there has been such a robust reaction from the international press with regard to the latest developments in Mikhail Khodorkovsky case – public awareness of Russia’s political prisoners is tantamount to buildin...
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