No more complaining about silence in the Western press, right? From the Wall Street Journal: Raucous Russian Paper Closes Amid Kremlin Scrutiny Expat’s Exile Falls As Investors Retreat; Ribald Pranksters By ALAN CULLISON June 18, 2008; Page ...
Today the New York Sun reviews Marshall Goldman’s book Petrostate. We’ll have our own review up soon. For whatever reason, the Sun continues to hamper on with its conservative pro-authoritarianism bent, reminiscent of the well-known pl...
Robert Amsterdam was on the CBC show The Current yesterday to talk about all that TNK-BP stuff, along with Steve LeVine and others. Listen to the show here (just scroll down a bit).
TNK-BP’s Russian shareholders reportedly have rejected a buyout offer from BP, accusing the British company of trying to seize control. “The TNK-BP dispute promises to define Dmitry Medvedev’s presidency in the same way that the Yukos bankru...
President Dmitry Medvedev has approved a riskier investment strategy for the country’s first sovereign wealth fund. Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin “is fighting an uphill struggle to limit spending.” Property management services firm Jones La...
TODAY: British Council in Moscow slams “punitive” tax bill; Georgia releases troops; Russian ban likely to “infuriate” Iran; Medvedev seeks advice on corruption; Anna Politkovskaya: three men charged. Relations between Britain and Russia have hit ...
Keep your eye on the ruble. Since the default of 1998, when the ruble collapsed and the savings of millions of ordinary Russians became worthless in a matter of days, the Central Bank of Russia has been pursuing a monetary policy known as “exchang...
Today Henry Kissinger met with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev as part of his duties on a bilateral panel, essentially offering his approval and stamp of legitimacy for the new leader: “I have followed with great interest your becoming pre...
From Luke Harding’s latest dispatch about the British Council: Today, Tony Blair – who was attending a private investors’ conference in Moscow – admitted relations between London and Moscow had been “difficult”,...
The Wall Street Journal warns of an overheating Russian economy: But with inflation surging in recent months — the annual rate in May was the highest in more than five years — the worry now is that the economy is growing too fast. Infl...
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