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January 31, 2008

Postcards from Canada

Over the past week I have been on a brief tour of my home country Canada, for a series of meetings, interviews, and speaking engagements (in fact I will be appearing before the Economic Club of Toronto in just a few short hours). Meanwhile back in...
January 31, 2008

Khodorkovsky’s Second Statement on the Hunger Strike

Below is a translation of Mikhail Khodorkovsky’s second statement on his announced hunger strike in support of former Yukos general counsel Vasily Alexanyan, who is being denied urgent medical treatment while being held in pre-trial detentio...
January 31, 2008

Energy Blast, Jan. 31, 2008

Viktor Zubkov and Vladimir Putin are both being reported as likely to succeed Dmitry Medvedev’s role as chairman of Gazprom, a company “regularly referred to as Kremlin Inc.” ArcelorMittal, the world’s biggest steelmaker, has agreed to buy t...
January 31, 2008

Today in Russian Business

Although he praised Russia’s economic development, Former US Federal Reserve chief Alan Greenspan said that the double-digit inflation rate was hurting Russia’s economy. UBS Securities is preparing to offer stocks of its investment funds to ...
January 31, 2008

RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – Jan. 31, 2008

TODAY: New OSCE spats for March presidential election, and Putin orders FSB to prevent external meddling. Kudrin criticizes Russia’s foreign policy. Putin and Medvedev call for environmental improvements. Khodorkovsky stars hunger strike. The Orga...
January 30, 2008

Chubais and Kudrin Warn the Hawks

In a rare disagreement with the president, two liberal members of the Russian government issued warnings to the hawks that Russia’s hard line foreign policy could damage foreign investment and business. In an article running in tomorrow̵...
January 30, 2008

Faces of the Opposition: Olga Kurnosova

In this edition of Grigory Pasko’s Faces of the Opposition video series, he speaks with Olga Kurnosova, a St. Petersburg representative of Other Russia. See other video interviews from this series on our YouTube channel.
January 30, 2008

Semyon Mogilevich’s Ties to RosUkrEnergo

Seems that we have posted quite a lot of material lately about the arrest of mobster Semyon Mogilevich, who until this week was enjoying an open and thriving business life in Moscow, with connections to the shadowy Turkmen-Ukraine gas trader RosUk...
January 30, 2008

The Kremlin’s Historical Fantasy of the Yukos Affair

The debut of the Russian government’s new standard history textbooks, complete with chapters softening the the legacy of Joseph Stalin’s great terror to the point of ambiguity, indoctrinating the youth with Vladislav Surkov’s sov...
January 30, 2008

Tom Nicholls: Tymoshenko calls for transparency

Calls by Ukraine’s new prime minister for Kyiv to deal directly with Gazprom over gas supplies are timely By Tom Nicholls Ukranian prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko wants to see greater transparency in the gas-trading arrangements between Ukraine an...