Despite the “anti-corruption drive” at the Ministry of Defense which has got so many people unreasonably excited, Russia continues to find it difficult to leave the bottom third in international corruption rankings such as Transparency...
Some very surprising news reported in The Financial Times today which will have an impact on all foreigners doing business in Russia. Russia’s Supreme Arbitration Court, which regulates commercial disputes, has annulled provisions in some contract...
Some very surprising news reported in The Financial Times today which will have an impact on all foreigners doing business in Russia. Russia’s Supreme Arbitration Court, which regulates commercial disputes, has annulled provisions in some contract...
Prof. Mark Galeotti has an interesting article this week on the new Minister of Defense Sergey Shoigu, who has replaced Anatoly Serdyukov as part of the much publicized anti-corruption purge taking place among the siloviki. Although Shoigu represe...
Prof. Mark Galeotti has an interesting article this week on the new Minister of Defense Sergey Shoigu, who has replaced Anatoly Serdyukov as part of the much publicized anti-corruption purge taking place among the siloviki. Although Shoigu represe...
As I was going through my weekly reading of academic journal articles, I came across an interesting set of arguments on Russia’s strategies and objectives in the Middle East by the British American Security Information Council. Author Shiva...
TODAY: Pussy Riot video to be banned; posthumous charged filed against Magnitsky; Perepilichnyy had been warned he was on hit list; Kopeysk prison strike highlights abuse of prisoners; planes beating trains. A Moscow City Court has declared that ...
TODAY: Pussy Riot video to be banned; posthumous charged filed against Magnitsky; Perepilichnyy had been warned he was on hit list; Kopeysk prison strike highlights abuse of prisoners; planes beating trains. A Moscow City Court has declared that ...
TODAY: Supergrass in Magnitsky case found dead in U.K.; Mityaev fears fate in pretrial detention; Latynina on Malofeyev; Russian billionaires and Britain’s offshore tax havens; Medvedev signs cooperation agreement in France, promises not to conver...
A good piece from Peter Rutland in the Moscow Times points out that for all the bitterness and wild conspiracy theories Russian pundits are throwing at the Magnitsky Act, there really isn’t any good reason for the US to do it besides human r...
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