Lyndon at the always-excellent Scraps of Moscow had posted an interesting article from JRL: “Many liberals are waiting for the release from prison of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, an oligarch jailed by Putin for his political ambitions. However, Med...
Russia, Canada, Greenland, Denmark, Norway and the US, which border the potentially energy-rich Arctic Ocean, have met in Greenland in an attempt to head off a new “gold rush” in the high north. The UN is set to rule on the arctic seab...
Following the arrest of its owner earlier this year, Arbat Prestige, one of Russia’s oldest and largest cosmetics chains, could be shut down permanently in the next few weeks. Vladimir Potanin and Alisher Usmanov have agreed to create a R...
TODAY: Yukos “hatchet man” hired as presidential aide; Georgia accuses Russia of trying to block its Nato membership; EU-Russia pact to take more than a year to complete; Putin in France for 2-day visit; Winnie the Pooh/Medvedev comparison upsets ...
Although this blog was launched two years ago with Russia and Europe as the main focus, in coming weeks and months I’m planning to expand coverage to other regions where I work; emerging areas which are similarly stifled by the issues of rul...
Stanislav Markelov is one of Russia’s most talented and brave human rights lawyers, and we’ve been pleased to share some of his material in translation on this blog in the past. (Download his bio here). Over the years he has been invol...
[See Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, and Part 5 of this series.] Nord Stream, Scandinavian Style or The Cold War, Continued Part 6 By Grigory Pasko, journalist Если Вы хотите прочитать оригинал данной статьи на русском языке, нажмите сюда. The Bal...
Some bloggers are leaping all over John McCain for his comments this week about his aim to build a deepening alliance with Russia to prevent nuclear proliferation – not because he had the bravery to broach this urgent and difficult subject &...
Manana Aslamazyan does not cast a very threatening image. The Russian civil society organizer is intelligently calm, soft-spoken, and bears the distinctive eyewear of a schoolteacher, not your prototype of a dangerous social agitator. Perhaps for ...
Rosneft and Gazprom have agreed on splitting offshore deposits, limiting foreign and private access. President Dmitry Medvedev officially left Gazprom’s board of directors this week, praising “our company’s” achievements. The company has inc...
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