We have been hearing about this interview with President Dmitry Medvedev for a few days now, and I think that Maria Bartiromo really zeroes on some of the most important questions, such as whether or not foreign capital can be protected. Ans...
Once in a while the President of Russia says things that are indisputably convincing: Since the crisis broke last year, however, the government has bailed out some major conglomerates that were highly leveraged, accepting shares as collateral in e...
Here’s an interesting tidbit from the Wall Street Journal: Vladimir Putin is used to taking flak from rivals in the former Soviet Union. Now he has to deal with opposition from a more unlikely location: Greenwich, Conn. Two months ago the Wa...
On the eve of the recent visit of Vladimir Putin to Helsinki, a presentation of my film about the Nord Stream gas pipeline took place there in the parliament of Finland. The crowd wasn’t very large – maybe 30 people. However amon...
Here’s the quote of the week. Vladimir Putin usually saves the public tongue-lashings for incompetent officials during cabinet meetings, but today he went totally chavista on Oleg Deripaska: Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin public...
A new piece in the Economist sees no change in government coming for Russia for a long, long time. The main risk, the authors argue, is not bankruptcy or political crisis, but stagnation from failure to reform the economy (a similar point ma...
Russia’s richest man, Mikhail Prokhorov, likes to grip it and rip it. Joking aside, what he is saying about living between the extremes says a lot about doing business in Russia – not for the feeble. Plus you’ve got t...
One of the most subtle forms of discrimination is said to be embodied in the application of diminished expectations – which has certainly been the phenomenon toward Russia in recent years as compared to the high hopes following the collapse ...
The Washington Post has an editorial today about Russia’s possible intentions to re-invade Georgia and finish off the despised President Miheil Saakashvili. The article doesn’t offer much new, but there is this assumption, seen h...
The Other Russia is running a translation from Yezhednevny Zhurnal about the Russian police’s use of blacklists to track the movements of suspected members of the opposition as well as normal, non-politically active citizens. One of th...
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