TODAY: Kasparov’s National Assembly meets for the first time; Khodorkovsky accuses Sechin of plotting his arrest; Putin accused of decorating private residence with state treasures; special report on Russia Today’s english news channel. Georgia re...
The Week in Review of the New York Times has a very interesting article today about the transformative power of just a little bit of openness in autocratic societies: Still, it is worth recalling a time when a little openness flew out of control. ...
A very rare interview with Mikhail Khodorkovsky is published in the Times today: Jailed tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky ‘framed’ by key Putin aide Mark Franchetti, Moscow THE former Russian oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky, now serving an eight year pris...
[See Part 1 and Part 2 of this series] Nord Stream, Scandinavian Style Beware of Greeks bearing gifts Part 3 Grigory Pasko, journalist I met with environmental activist and member of the «greens» Party of the island of Gotland Stefaan De Maecker a...
Here’s another exclusive translation from RBK Daily, this one from Thursday, 15 May 2008. Our Russia correspondent Grigory Pasko has reported in the past on the arbitrary land seizures that await residents of Sochi in connection with the Olympics....
Ivan Krastev of the Centre for Liberal Strategies in Sofia, Bulgaria, has a strongly worded opinion article published in today’s Wall Street Journal remarking on the dual nature of the new Russian government, and the potential for internal c...
Remember Mikhail Fradkov? The quietly loyal and possibly inept former prime minister who was shuffled aside in a startling move last year by Putin to appoint Victor Zubkov – throwing everybody “off the trail” to protect his prefe...
First Deputy Prime Minister Viktor Zubkov will become the next chairman of Gazprom. The company is taking a major step into the North American market, having agreed to become a partner in the Rabaska liquefied natural gas terminal in Quebec. Alexe...
The 13th Economic Forum opens in Yekaterinburg today, focusing on aspects of regional investment policy. Russian billionaire Suleiman Kerimov is planning to sell silver miner Polymetal. New York apples are being exported to Russia for the first ti...
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