In George Will’s column about Chief Justice John Roberts’s new report, we are briefly reminded of how much has changed during the Putin years: Roberts’s report recounts accompanying a Russian judge walking among Arlington Nationa...
Alexander Zaslavsky and Ilya Zaslavsky, two brothers, both dual U.S.-Russian citizens, have found themselves arrested this week, prisoners of the Russian government under charges of “corporate oil espionage,” and at the center of what ...
From the New York Times review of Andrei Nekrasov‘s film “Poisoned by Polonium: The Litvinenko File”: More personal essay than political diatribe, “Poisoned by Polonium” is not without its lighter moments. During a conversation w...
File this one under painful irony: after so many years of the Kremlin seizing private property and holding rigged auctions, now they get a taste of their own medicine as a German court has ruled to allow the seizure and auction of a government-own...
Gazprom said methane captured from underground coal mines may provide a “serious” addition to resources as producing natural-gas fields in Siberia decline. The company has completed the acquisition of effective control in regional power utility TG...
Russian Railways is to spend almost $33.9 billion over the next 12 years to modernize Moscow’s local railway network. The regional governor of Ulyanovsk has ordered top officials to learn English so that they can communicate more easily with...
TODAY: Medvedev needs to create parliamentary independence; TNK-BP arrests made on grounds of “industrial espionage”. Russian TV journalist found dead. Russia “less hostile” towards US missile defense plans. If Medvedev intends to widen the discus...
We’re pleased to present another special exclusive guest column by the Russian political activist and youth movement coordinator, Oleg Kozlovsky. When you chop wood, chips fly… By Oleg Kozlovsky, exclusively for www.robertamsterdam.com In ex...
President-elect Dmitry Medvedev seems to be saying all the right things. ITAR-TASS is reporting a very positive speech he gave at the 85th anniversary of the Supreme Court today, in which he argued that legal nihilism is a major brake on Russia...
The raid on BP’s offices in Russia continues to unravel in surprising ways. Today the FSB is announcing that they have arrested a dual U.S.-Russian citizen and employee of TNK-BP as part of a “corporate oil espionage” investigati...
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