A few days ago I blogged about how many problems involving the Russian government are requiring some strange solutions. A few more examples come to mind… Problem – Russia says your country’s meat is unsafe and bans its import. So...
We have written many times in the past about the challenge to European energy security posed by Gazprom’s Nord Stream pipeline project, and our correspondent Grigory Pasko has actually traveled along the entire route of the pipeline for an e...
The Moscow Times offers an important and timely article today about the difficult access to AIDS treatment for prisoners held in state custody. The article notes that according to Russian law, a person diagnosed with serious health problems should...
The following op/ed about Vasily Alexanyan (or Alexanian, Aleksanyan if you prefer), was translated from Monday’s Vedomosti. The author argues that even under Joseph Stalin, the Russian government at least provided medical care to sick zeks....
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is making some news for her comments on Russia at the World Economic Forum at Davos. As the conference organizers are at great pains to make everyone get along and sound civilized, usually most tough questi...
Russian state Development Bank, also known as VEB, will lend $2 billion to state oil firm Rosneft to help it modernise the Tuapse refinery on the Black Sea. China Oilfield Services says the Russian government has blocked its bid for an oil-well dr...
TODAY: Zyuganov won’t pull out of the presidential race, although Medvedev looks set for an overwhelming victory. Lavrov speaks out on international disputes. NATO-Russia summit to go ahead in April. Kremlin wants Russian GPS system to rival the U...
It is being reported that France has unfrozen one of the Russian Central Bank‘s accounts in French commercial banks, frozen as part of a lawsuit by Swiss trading firm Noga. Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin says that Russia, “a sufficiently sta...
Robert Amsterdam has a new column running on the JURIST legal news website, providing an update on the latest developments in the Khodorkovsky case. He writes: “After nearly five years of arguing that the case against Khodorkovsky is politic...
Below is a translation of an article from Khodorkovsky.ru, dated Jan. 22. It serves as a companion to the Supreme Court transcript of Vasily Alexanyan which we posted earlier. Supreme Court decides to play god Terminally ill Vasily Alexanyan kept ...
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