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June 16, 2008

Today in Russian Business – June 16, 2008

Czech investment fund PPF and Russian businessmen Alexander Nesis and Alexander Mamut have bought large stakes in silver miner Polymetal from Suleiman Kerimov. Reports are circulating that Kerimov is interested in buying stakes in major European b...
June 16, 2008

RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – June 16, 2008

TODAY: Russia’s military “poorly equipped”; scientists focus on nanotechnology; Russian mafia arrested in Spain; OSCE makes veiled accusations about Russian elections. Military officials openly hype the notion of a resurgent Russian power, but in ...
June 15, 2008

The Emergence of Medvedev

Jeffrey Tayler has an interesting new article in the Atlantic Monthly about how the clan wars within the Kremlin continue to roil, potentially upsetting the Putin-Medvedev dyarchy and leading to an emerging role of greater influence for RussiaR...
June 14, 2008

Grigory Pasko: The Young Soviet President

The Young Soviet President Grigory Pasko, journalist Если Вы хотите прочитать оригинал данной статьи на русском языке, нажмите сюда. A month has passed since Dmitry Medvedev was seated on the Russian throne. Besides the trips he is entitled to by ...
June 14, 2008

Chrystia Freeland on the Lessons of TNK-BP

Chrystia Freeland of the FT talks to Nightly Business Report about the TNK-BP events in Russia. Steve LeVine also has a blog post worth reading. JEFF YASTINE: Tonight’s commentator says companies doing business overseas could learn a thing o...
June 13, 2008

McCain and the Ukraine

Democracy Arsenal is blogging today about Rick Davis, one of Sen. John McCain’s campaign managers, and his ties to the pro-Kremlin Party of Regions in Ukraine led by Viktor Yanukovich. They refer to a new report from ABC which cites the McCa...
June 13, 2008

U.S. Senate Hearing on Russian Energy

Sen. Joe Biden, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, oversaw a hearing yesterday entitled “Oil, Oligarchs, and Opportunity: Energy from Central Asia to Europe” to examine Russia’s use of its enormous oil and gas reserves, and regiona...
June 13, 2008

Committing to Governance Standards in Russia

Below is an excerpt from a letter to the editor of the FT from Brook Horowitz, executive director of the International Business Leaders Forum in response to Gideon Rachman’s recent column about TNK-BP. We generally agree that it is the inves...
June 13, 2008

Lifestyles of the Rich and Russian

Russia has become very wealthy in recent years, and wants you to know it. We’ve seen bold forays into fashion and design, and even the emergence of “mobster chic” and the Kalashnikov bedside lamp. We’ve seen the world’...
June 13, 2008

Complicated Patriotism and Historical Whitewash

I’m not the first person to believe that the burden of history weighs heavily on the shoulders on Russia’s citizens – those seeking a proud identity based upon historical achievements, yet are so often scolded and asked to feel s...