Tax authorities have opened a tax-fraud case against a subsidiary of the Ostankino Meat Processing Plant, which could give them ammunition to convict hundreds of companies still believed to be using off-the-book payment schemes as a method of tax ...
TODAY: Medvedev warns against Nato expansion; his campaign workers are “strongly allied with Putin”; Gorbachev says US missile defense is aimed against Russia. Russian polar bears to be protected. National Bolshevik activists sentenced. In an inte...
Edward Lucas is interviewed by Charlie Gillis of Maclean’s: Q: You do, however, compare the West’s view of Russia today to the one we held in the 1930s. You also draw a parallel to Neville Chamberlain’s appeasement of Nazi German...
“Mopping up” the country before Medvedev’s inauguration? By Grigory Pasko, journalist Forcible eviction We have recently reported here on the blog about the search conducted by the local police of a human rights center in Chita. In that same artic...
Jackson Diehl has an interesting op/ed today on Georgia: “By refusing us, [NATO] will be sending a signal to Russia of, ‘Go and get them. We are not going to mind too much,’ ” Saakashvili said. “Russia will be embolde...
U.S. Sen. Joe Biden (D-Del) has a column on Russia in today’s Wall Street Journal: In six weeks, Dmitry Medvedev will take over Russia’s presidency. His ascension comes at a critical moment. Relations between the United States and Russ...
OMV, Austria’s leading oil and gas company, is “battling” Gazprom for control of Europe’s energy supply. “You have to deal with Gazprom and it is not a small company. What we can do is grow, expand and add value. What is the alternative? Bei...
Russia is expected to spend 4.8% of its GDP per year on a program to develop its transportation system in 2010-2015. New statistics from the Central Bank of Russia show that in January, Russia’s 30 biggest banks granted more corporate loans than t...
TODAY: Head of British Council criticizes “political chess”; electoral monitoring discussions continue; Zubkov calls for US to ease pressure on Belarus. The Party of Blondes. Sochi to displace 4,000 residents. One US journalist writes that two cru...
The case of the state’s latest triple-pronged attack on TNK-BP serves as an important reminder that Russia’s investment environment remains about as stable and law-abiding as it was during the height of the Yukos theft – appeals ...
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