[Editor’s note:At first sight, it may seem odd to post an article about something as frivolous as the Russian football (soccer) championship on this blog, but as Grigory Pasko points out below, in today’s Russia, even football has a politica...
Here’s an interesting one about the oil price crisis from an American perspective at the Washington Post: So the tightened gap between supply and demand has shifted power to producers. “Will competition for scarce resources lead to pol...
Back on Nov. 5 we posted a rush translation of the decision by a Dutch court to void the illegal sale of Yukos assets. Now we are updating that text with a full translation which has been carefully vetted by translators and lawyers. The original l...
A couple of days ago we blogged about an award ceremony prepared by the Russian government to celebrate their most famous Cold War atomic spy, who brought nuclear secrets to Moscow direct from the Manhattan Project. Now Russia is holding ceremonie...
Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during his meeting with road workers in Krasnoyarsk. Putin said he would have a “moral” mandate to influence Russian politics, even after leaving office in 2008, if his United Russia party wins n...
We weren’t the ones to say it this time, although the name of the E.ON chief has appeared on this blog before. Now it looks that Mr. Wulf Bernotat has taken his lobbying on behalf of Gazprom a bit far, especially in his mission to make sure ...
Last Friday in my FT column I wrote about Eni CEO Paolo Scaroni’s backing of the South Stream pipeline project with Gazprom as being detrimental to European energy security, as it decreased diversity of suppliers and competition by damaging ...
Tatiana Yankelevich, the daughter of Elena Bonner (Andrei Sakharov’s widow) and director of the Sakharov Program on Human Rights at The Andrei Sakharov Archives and Center at Harvard University, has published an op/ed today with the McClatch...
Our top correspondent here at the blog and the former political prisoner, Grigory Pasko, today is featured in a full page profile in Le Monde. After the jump, the text in French. Translation forthcoming.
Groveling ever higher (if such a thing is possible) By Grigory Pasko, journalist Mikhalkov-Tsereteli’s letter has already been discussed by everyone and anyone with the least bit of desire to do so. They have assessed it almost unequivocally...
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