From a Financial Times editorial: The politically charged cases against Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the jailed former chief of Yukos, the oil company since devoured by the state, and once Russia’s richest man, or the long stand-off between BP and ...
As many of you have gathered from the news over the weekend, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has spoken openly about the joblessness glut currently hitting Russia, citing the fact that there are some six million are out of work and remarking tha...
“The case goes far beyond Khodorkovsky’s fate” Interviewer: Daniel-C. Schmidt Originally published in German in Die Welt, 13 March 2009 Defense lawyer Robert Amsterdam discusses the proceedings against the ex-Yukos head and the p...
TODAY: Chávez says no military base; Dovgy trial begins today; Medvedev focuses on corruption, calls for government criticism; 1,000-strong protests in Vladivostock.President Dmitry Medvedev counted 40,000 criminal cases ‘brought against tho...
From the Sunday Herald: A symbol of selective Kremlin justice, his second trial – on embezzlement and money-laundering charges – promises to reveal whether Russia is really headed in a new direction. Does Medvedev really represent a lo...
The coincidence of these announcements from the Kremlin about placing strategic bombers at Venezuelan and Cuban bases most definitely seems timed to rain on any parade of the meeting between the American and Brazilian presidents. More commen...
From the Chicago Tribune: At a time when the world’s financial crisis has most countries hunkering down, Russia is parlaying the global meltdown into a lever for expanding its influence in Central Asia and other former Soviet republics that ...
This one comes from Vidya Ram at Forbes: “Contract killings may have decreased in frequency since the 1990s and the day of wild capitalism, but they are still occurring regularly in Russia, though they rarely make the headlines,” he to...
From Reuters: “Russia has reached a crossroads. Many of the oligarchs are basically bankrupt and will not get out of this mess by themselves,” said one senior Western banker, who requested anonymity because of the sensitivity of debt t...
From Russia Profile, Ethan Burger’s contribution to the debate: There is no doubt that the Russian authorities conducted what amounted to a “show trial” against Mikhail Khodorkovsky. The Russian prosecution does not usually place...
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