The Financial Times has a new editorial calling upon President Dmitry Medvedev to step in and deal with BP’s disputes with their local partners. We have blogged this story many times. It is legitimate for shareholders to be robust in pursuit...
This one comes from the International Herald Tribune. Professor Cohen is based out of New York University. Wrong on Russia By Stephen F. Cohen Neither of the two major American presidential candidates has seriously addressed, or even seems fully a...
If there existed a silent competition among the heads of state of former Soviet territories to see who can antagonize the Kremlin the most, one would have to concede that the plucky Estonians certainly punch above their weight. Points in this game...
There seems to be no end to the Russian state’s subterfuge in the Anna Politkovskaya murder investigation, as today officials indicated that they believe that the killer has fled to hide in Western Europe (rumors say Belgium). With what has ...
Robert Amsterdam appeared on Bloomberg Television today to discuss the rehashed charges filed against Mikhail Khodorkovsky (click here to watch the video). “There’s nothing fair about this case,” Robert Amsterdam, a lawyer for Kh...
Kommersant explains how there is not much “new” about the rehashed charges filed against Mikhail Khodorkovsky by the Russian prosecutors. The paper is also running an interview with a former Khodorkovsky cell mate, who confesses that h...
BP says it is “disappointed” and finds it “utterly disgraceful” that up to 75 foreign employees of TNK-BP will have to leave Russia after Moscow authorities refused the firm a number of work visas. Kommersant sees TNK-BP’s Russian shareholders “ad...
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin told visiting US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson that Russia, contrary to popular belief, has “various funds”, but does not yet have a sovereign wealth fund. He also said that Russia is “ready to respond” to the chal...
TODAY: Khodorkovsky’s former inmate tells of prison officials’ corruption; Russia appears on new corruption ranking; EU to start new Russia talks this week; US Treasury Secretary meets with Putin and Medvedev. A former inmate of Mikhail Khodorkovs...
As you may have already read in the media, earlier today Russian prosecutors presented new charges against my client, the political prisoner Mikhail Khodorkovsky. The most notable coverage of this development comes from the French daily Le Monde, ...
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