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Updated on Saturday, November 21, 2009, 11:33 IST Tags: Moscow: Germany's new Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle emphasised strong relations with Russia during his first visit to Moscow on Friday, but remained discreet on human...
Andrew Meier has penned an epic, wide ranging profile of the second trial of Mikhail Khodorkovsky in The New York Times Magazine, which captures a sense of the courtroom, the personalities, and the historical context of the...
Today, the contemporary version of the KGB, the Federal Security Bureau, runs Russia’s energy businesses in much the same top-down way that the KGB once ran the Soviet Union, with business always subordinate to the regime’s...
Human-rights activists and colleagues of a 37-year-old attorney who died Tuesday in a Moscow prison say it is common practice in Russia to deny medical attention to people in custody as a way to force them to cooperate with...
Earlier today we were emailed regarding a small demonstration to be held tomorrow morning in front of the Drake Hotel in Chicago, IL in support of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, coinciding with the Russian National Exhibition (a...
Renault may be about to learn the folly of buying into a Russian company with close ties to the Russian government instead of establishing a presence of their own. Renault recently took a 25% stake in Avtovaz and things have...
Russian Govt Approves Draft Transfer Pricing Law, by Tatiana Smolenskaya, Tax-News.com, Moscow The Russian government has approved a draft law on transfer pricing ready for its first reading in the Duma before the end of the...
Two meticulous assessments of the decline of giant oil companies We live in an age of teetering empires, never quite ready to fall, eras not quite ready to end, their final crisis the subject of an ever-expanding literature of...
PARIS, November 13 (RIA Novosti) - The hearing on the case of former Russian oil giant Yukos that demands $98 billion from Russia in the European Court of Human Rights has been postponed until January 14, the court said Friday....
page 1 of 2 by Galina Stolyarova In the absence of meaningful civic action, many Russians continue the czarist tradition of appealing to the country’s rulers. ST. PETERSBURG | A sociologist here conducted some interesting...
