There’s a very interesting op/ed in the Wall Street Journal today entitled “Genghis Putin” by Michael Auslin of AEI, focusing on the raft of business deals the Russian government is stapling down in Mongolia. Auslin’s conce...
The international human rights NGO Freedom House makes no attempt to hide the fact that about 80% of the funding comes from the U.S. government (as stated in each of their annual reports), something that causes many foreign governments to recoil i...
Konstantin Sonin, who also has written some great material on resource nationalism, has a column in the Moscow Times making the case for Russia to reinstate the direct election of regional governors (after Beslan, Putin issued an authoritarian dec...
Accounting group PricewaterhouseCoopers won a small decision in the Russian courts yesterday which will allow them appeal the egregious back tax ruling which they face as a result of having been involved with Yukos, “a case that several fore...
OPEC president Chakib Khelil has warned that oil prices “will not come down”. Lukoil will spend €1.35 billion euros ($2.1 billion) on a joint venture with Italy’s ERG that is expected to expand sales in Europe. Eni has made a new on-shore gas disc...
The Russian unit of PricewaterhouseCoopers has won the right to appeal a ruling that it illegally helped former oil company Yukos evade taxes. Oleg Deripaska is “clashing” with Czech Peter Kellner over insurer Ingosstrakh. A subsidiary of the Alor...
TODAY: Amendments to pretrial detention could see prisoners released; “financial attacks” on successful companies; pastor’s sentence suspended; EU summit this week to focus on Georgia; Russian army to be cut to 1 million by 2013. Vedomosti has rep...
Many of you have likely already had the opportunity to read Yulia Latynina’s powerful article from Sunday’s Washington Post, but I am going to repost below to make sure it is always in this blog’s archives. Back when I was regula...
Doublespeak is not a uniquely Russian characteristic, but when they do it, it is pulled off with artistry and aplomb. Emblematic of the country’s icon of the double-headed eagle, everyone from a citizen to a tourist to an investor is bound t...
As the long-awaited natural gas price liberalization slowly begins to take hold in Russia, numerous funds and investors are eagerly waiting to throw money into production – and not necessarily just at Gazprom (new independent producers are l...
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