Commentary & Opinion
Let’s Get Privatization Right This Time Around
In an opinion editorial for The Moscow Times, Anders Aslund calls for a new large-scale privatization in Russia, noting the country’s oil production has levelled out after the expropriation of YUKOS.
Generation Exile
Corruption is forcing Russia’s best and brightest to flee the country, in a pattern established by the Kremlin’s destruction of YUKOS and jailing of Mikhail Khodorkovsky.
Russia Must be Part of the European Utopia
In an opinion editorial for The Observer, Constanze Stelzenmüller argues that the EU would benefit from engaging vigorously and meaningfully with the former Soviet Union and her neighbors
The Procuracy and the Bully Pulpit
Yesterday's attack on defense witness Stephen Wilson was a sign that the scales can still tip very far away from the illusion of impartiality.
Yury Afanasiev: Institutionalized Liberals are Propping up a Doomed Regime
The institutionalized liberal opposition is the apologist of the Putin regime; this opinion, expressed at the Khodorkovsky readings, has somewhat shocked political figures and intellectuals who were among the audience.