Defining treason in legal terms is an inherently political process, fraught with bitter contention, weight of history, suspicions of abuse, and no shortage of nationalist grandstanding. But probably not for Russia, which this week introduced...
The following is an exclusive translation from RBK Daily on the preparations being made by the Russian security forces to handle an uprising or unrest over the economic crisis. In expectation of uprisings The powers have rethought reducing interio...
Yesterday we blogged that Russia had a number of reasons to stay outside the sway of OPEC, not least because they wouldn’t want to risk their hard-earned international standing in groups such as the G8 and the succession effort to the WTO, b...
We’ve done a fair amount of blogging about the case of the terminally ill former Yukos general counsel Vasily Alexanyan, who after spending years in prison under no charges and subjected to essentially fatal medical blackmail, was recently g...
TODAY: Pro-Putin ministers slam Finance Ministry; anti-corruption bill to get second reading; Peskov goes after negative stereotypes; Kremlin backing Lukashenko? Russian mayor stabbed to death.President Dmitry Medvedev’s anti-corruptio...
Contract with the devil Grigory Pasko, journalist The regional congress of non-commercial (human rights and civic) organzations (NCOs) took place from 4 through 7 December in Penza. In the year 2005, the congress took place in Poland, while in 200...
As if right on cue to accompany the news that Russia’s industrial output has slumped by more than 10% for the month of November – far exceeding even the worst expectations – the Financial Times is running a piece which asks how l...
So far there’s been no shortage of smiles. As OPEC members prepare for the big meeting tomorrow in Algeria, all eyes are suddenly looking toward the Russians in an attempt to gauge how much production they will agree to cut or what deg...
Today the Wall Street Journal is running an extensive autopsy of BP’s herculean effort to become the first foreign company to be a player in Russian oil through their joint venture in TNK-BP – a story of vast misunderstandings, mistake...
From a book review of History’s Greatest Heist: The Looting of Russia by the Bolsheviks by Sean McMeekin. ‘The knell of private property sounds’, wrote Karl Marx. ‘The expropriators are being expropriated.’ Nothing co...
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