The Wall Street Journal has a good column today on one of our favorite topics – Russia’s energy disaggregation of Europe. Accelerating EU plans to build a single market for energy would have multiple benefits. It would encourage much m...
Andrei Piontkovsky has an incendiary column published through Project Syndicate alleging the economic interests of some Russia commentators in the United States. This one is bound to raise some controversy. The Kremlin’s achievements i...
We recently ran across this interesting letter from Russia on a social networking site. While we obviously don’t make any claims for its authenticity, we thought we’d post it anyway, because we feel it reflects – albeit in a humo...
Credit is due to Governor Sergei Morozov, who last year as head of the Russian region of Ulyanovsk came up with the great idea of giving away brand new SUVs to women who managed to get pregnant on or around “The Day of Conception”...
Nothing breaks up the Monday blues like a yet another video from Henry Kissinger talking about North Korea and Russia. Fast forward to about 10:30 to get to the Russia stuff. The banter is pretty predictable from Kissinger – we a...
I thought Richard Lourie’s column today in the Moscow Times was particularly interesting, and reminded me of several conversations I had during my last trip to Caracas. A friend commented to me that a true totalitarian, whether youR...
This past weekend a dear friend of mine, Olga Konskaya, passed away. Words are insufficient to express my grief. My thoughts and prayers are with her friends and family. Olga Konskaya, a prominent Russian film producer, director and actress, died ...
Whoa! The RTS is booming today. From the Financial Times: Yet one market has outperformed all others. Russian equities have more than doubled since they touched lows in January – gaining particular momentum since the return of ri...
Russia’s hostile disapproval of the EU’s Eastern Partnership initiative is surprising for many reasons, notes a new study from German Institute for International and Security Affairs by Susan Stewart. First of all, this is just a...
The following long article was published in the Polish magazine Dziennik. “Power, Carry out Your Laws!” By Robert Amsterdam These words stated by Mikhail Khodorkovsky at the start of a second show trial against him in Moscow this March...
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