Jason Bush has a devastating piece published in BusinessWeek about the Council of Europe report on Russia’s rule of law vacuum. Prosecutors accuse the ex-Yukos managers of embezzling 350 million metric tons of oil, equivalent to Yukos’...
AFP is reporting that the Kremlin is feeling pretty angry about getting scammed out of $2 billion to have have Kyrgyzstan close the Manas airbase to U.S. access. “The news about the preservation of the base was an extremely unpleasant surpri...
The following is an exclusive translation from Novaya Gazeta, published on Monday, describing the pandemonium and absurdity which occurred during the Khodorkovsky trial on days 35-38. “Your honor, why is the public laughing?” Significa...
Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger, a former German minister of justice and an observer at the first trial of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, has released a very important report on the politically motivated abuses of courts in members of the Council of Eur...
President Dmitry Medvedev has unveiled a rather curious environment plan to put greenhouse gas emissions back to the level they were at in 1990 – which essential means a 30% increase. At least they are talking about the issue, point ou...
Remember back when the Russians bribed the Kyrgyz government with a $2 billion aid package in order to kick the Americans out of the Manas airbase, severely hampering the U.S. government’s ability to operate in Afghanistan? Well it loo...
I liked this line from Shevtsova’s MT article: Nevertheless, Obama might try to pull off something in Moscow that no other U.S. president has succeeded in doing: reaching an agreement with the Kremlin on issues of common interest and at the ...
Good ‘ole Norway. You’d never hear a peep from them about human rights or democracy shortcomings over in Russia, and in exchange they are gifted with some large contracts for the state energy company. Nobody ever said it wa...
I have often argued that Russia’s friendship with China is more talk than it is substance (for example, Venezuela’s president has made twice as many trips to Moscow in recent years than China’s President Hu Jintao). But thi...
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