The government wants foreign investors to seek its permission for buying control of mobile and landline communications companies, a measure that could hamper growth in the booming sector. At the latest government meeting, Prime Minister Viktor Zub...
TODAY: “Merchant of Death” arrested in Thailand. Russia’s European University shut down over elections project? Putin supports Armenian government. Reznik allegedly ends hunger strike. The biggest story in the UK press today concerns the “Merchant...
Why there wasn’t much democracy to observe during Russia’s elections Grigory Pasko, journalist As is known, many have refused to participate in the observer process for the Russian elections: the Office for Democratic Institutions and ...
Here is an interesting bit from the FT about a last minute “edit” made in a speech by Germany’s foreign minister to soften his criticism of the irregularities in Russia’s elections: According to the manuscript of a speech F...
I hear a lot of convincing arguments about why we shouldn’t worry about the Kremlin’s sovereign wealth ambitions. After all, Russia’s $150 billion stabilization fund is comparatively tiny considering the returns that Gazprom and ...
A recent short academic paper by Ana Elizabeth Bastida and Paul Segal addresses the problem of the resource curse and Dutch Disease, prompting some interesting questions about how the Russian government is handling its considerable influx of dolla...
Two Canadian academics have a polemic op/ed in today’s Toronto Star, which calls upon the West to stop the finger-wagging over Russia’s democracy and human rights record, while asking world leaders to … well, it’s not quite...
Ukraine and Russia have resolved the dispute that threatened to disrupt natural-gas supplies to European markets, with Naftogaz promising to settle the $600 million debt. The announcement came just “hours after Gazprom warned European customers th...
Russia’s Federal Financial Market Service (FFMS) has suggested consolidating all Russian exchanges into a single holding, and then making an IPO of its stocks. Eldorado, one of the country’s largest home-electronics retailers, is facing back...
TODAY: Aleksanyan will not be released from custody. Foreign investment in internet and mass media restricted. Moscow billionaires. Russia “sacrifices growth to curb inflation”. The Kremlin is reportedly spending “tens of millions of dollars” on v...
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