The Federal Migration Service says its tax evasion probe into BP was not part of any “special actions” against the company. Former Unified Energy System’s power producer OGK-1 will be bought for $7 billion by Electricite de France and a Russian fi...
Shareholders of the former Menatep Group (now called GML), including Leonid Nevzlin and Platon Lebedev, have won a “major victory” in their attempts to get a share of bankrupt Yukos’ assets, after a Dutch court ordered a Dutch subsidiary of Yukos ...
TODAY: Third Yabloko official under investigation. Anglo-Russian relations under scrutiny again after release of new report. President Bush to visit Putin in Russia. President Bush announced that he has accepted an invitation by President Vladimir...
BOOK REVIEW: “Fujimori’s Peru: Deception in the Public Sphere,” by Catherine M. Conaghan (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005) Some of the most interesting comparative politics studies I’ve read take a look at the similar experiences in transitio...
[Editor’s note: yesterday we posted part 1 of Grigory Pasko’s interview with Dr. Yuri Savenko, president of the Independent Psychiatric Association of Russia, and an adviser to the Russian human rights ombudsman. Below the interview pi...
…but also says he would kick them out of the G8 while signing up India and Brazil. Excerpts from a foreign policy speech given by Sen. John McCain to the Los Angeles World Affairs Council after the cut.
In many modern democracies, the public scandal has become the bread and butter of the system – whether it is a New York governor’s peccadilloes, a bribery investigation of one of Germany’s largest companies, or even high society ...
Masha Lipman in WaPo: If the team of Putin and Medvedev really means modernization, it is sure to face tough challenges. First and foremost is the question of whether modernization is even possible in a deinstitutionalized system that has eliminat...
Last night I blogged that the Russian government was going back to its 2004-style hard power expropriation with its very un-subtle attack on TNK-BP. I complained that despite this daylight robbery, no one was willing to say anything about it. Perh...
The Kremlin’s investigation into BP is dominating the news today. “Analysts see clear similarities to the way Shell was treated before being made to hand part of its Sakhalin-2 project to state-owned oil and gas group Gazprom,” says one paper. “Th...
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