Archive July 2009

  • Be Wary of the Kremlin

    30 Jul 2009 | National Post

    In an opinion editorial in Canada’s National Post, Pat Akey, a PhD student in Finance at the London Business School, and Art Durnev, an assistant professor of Finance at McGill University’s Desautels Faculty of Management, comment that Canadian investors should be wary about the political volatility of markets like Russia.

  • No Place in BRIC for Russia’s Economic Mess

    29 Jul 2009 | The Moscow Times

    Anders Aslund, a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, comments that Russia’s economy, dominated by oil and gas and dependent on global energy prices, is underperforming compared to the other BRIC countries.

  • Rosneft Chairman Igor Sechin Arrives in Venezuela for Talks with Chavez

    28 Jul 2009 | Huffington Post

    Khodorkovsky defense lawyer Robert Amsterdam comments on Russian Russian Deputy Prime Minister and Rosneft Chairman Igor Sechin’s visit to Venezuela.

  • Human Rights Activist Mikhail Trepashkin On the Violations in the Trial

    28 Jul 2009 | Khodorkovsky and Lebedev Communications Center

    Human rights activist Mikhail Trepashkin comments on the violations in the second Khodorkovsky-Lebedev trial.

  • Sergei Kovalev: Letter from the Court

    27 Jul 2009 | Khodorkovsky and Lebedev Communications Center

    Leading Russian human rights activist Sergei Kovalev writes from to readers of Korpunkt.com.